Collector's_Name: Alden C. Dirks Habitat: Ridge top, mixed forest, Quercus alba, Quercus rubra, Populus grandidentata, and Pinus strobus present, Quercus rubra was closest Taste_and_Odor: Taste mild, pleasant, sweet even; odor pleasant, mushroomy Chemical_Reactions: 5% KOH darkening cap with a faint reddish hue, pitch black on pores, blue grey on flesh; iron salts darkening cap with a grey hue, greyish on pores, dark blue-grey on flesh; NH4OH did not noticeably affect cap color, bright red orange on pores, orangish red brown on stipe where it dissolved the flesh turning brown then grey over time Spore_Print: Not Determined Macroscopic_Features: Bolete about 10 cm tall with rhizomorphs extending into the substrate, flesh yellowish brown, staining slightly brown and blue then dark brown, base orange brown Pileus 4.7 cm wide, 1.5 cm tall, pores .5 cm deep, surface smooth, brown with darker brown to black fibril-like look in the center Pores .5 cm deep, bright yellow, firm, merulioid, radially arranged, bruising dark brown Partial veil mebranaceous, thin, attached 3 mm below pores, greyish to blue grey, somewhat translucent, tearing Stipe clavate, 8 cm long, 2.5 cm wide at the base, 1.5 cm wide at apex Microscopic_Features: Narrowly cylindrical, subfusiform to oblong spores, length (8.3) 10.0-13.3 (15), width (3.0) 3.8-4.7 (5.5), Q (2.2) 2.5-3.1 (3.6), 65 spores measured Basidia with 4 sterigmata, cystidia present, pileipellis a cutis Other: I cannot identify this specimen. At first I was thinking Paragyrodon, but lots of characteristics were off and the spores are not subglobose. But it does not key out with any Suillus species. It was growing close to an oak, Quercus rubra, as well as an aspen, Populus grandidentata. There were white pines in the area as well.