Cap color variable: yellow-brown to amber-brown, sometimes streaked brown over a yellow ground color, becoming ochraceous tawny in age. Flesh is yellow, blues quickly when cut, odor & taste not distinctive. Its pore surface is yellow at first, becoming greenish yellow to olive-yellow in age. The stalk is dry, solid and covered with brown reticulation on the upper portion that sometimes is yellow at the apex. Grows under oak and pine.