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Bitter Bolete
The bitter bolete is a brown-capped bolete with white pores that turn pink and a stem covered in a coarse dark-brown net. It is not poisonous but is intensely bitter, and one specimen can spoil a dish. Young specimens are sometimes mistaken for the king bolete (Boletus edulis).
Not poisonous, but inedible because of its intense bitterness, which cooking makes worse. Distinguish it from Boletus edulis by the pink pores and the dark net on a paler stem (the reverse of B. edulis, which has a pale net). It is sold in some Mexican markets.
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