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Red-pored Bolete
A large red-pored bolete of western North American mixed forests with an olive to reddish-brown cap, red pores that bruise dark blue, and a stout yellow stem with red netting. It is poisonous. In 1994 a couple developed gastrointestinal illness after eating it, and the husband died of an intestinal (midgut) infarction; this is reported as the only bolete implicated in a human death.
Poisonous; potentially deadly. Implicated in one fatal poisoning in 1994; tasting alone caused severe gastrointestinal symptoms in another person. It contains low levels of muscarine, and the cause of the fatality is not fully explained. Do not eat.
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