USA, Michigan, Manistee, Manistee National Forest. Near Wellston, woods off of Udell Hills Rd.
44.2229 -86.0549 +-1000m. WGS84
Scattered and common in oak/pine woods, often near the edge of trails or in landscaped areas.
On ground.
Cap bright brick red, bald, shiny, slightly sticky when fresh (some adhering debris) and sub-viscid when fresh after wet weather, slightly paler towards margin. Cap with numerous potholes and depressions in old age. Pores red, exuding conspicuous clear yellow droplets when young, bruising blue/dark blue, pores attached to the stipe. Stipe more or less equal (or slightly larger towards base), deeply and conspicuously reticulate along its entire length, red with yellow reticulation, with more yellow towards the apex (although the reticulation mostly entirely red in some specimens). Flesh yellow, turning light blue when sliced.
Locally very abundant. Perhaps 15-20 patches consisting each of 3-15 individual fruitbodies within a few square kilometer area.