Boletellus ananas (M. A. Curtis) Murrill 1909

Boletellus ananas (M. A. Curt.) Murrill, Mycologia 1 : 10. 1909
Boletus Ananas M. A. Curt. Am. Jour. Sci. II. 6 : 351. 1848.
Boletus isabellinus Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 24 : 146. 1897. (Type from Mississippi.)
Pileus convex to expanded, somewhat irregular, 5-10 cm. broad ; surface light-tan with a pinkish tinge to pinkish-brown, covered with a thick coat of conspicuous, imbricate, fioccose scales, which are reddish flesh-colored fading to almost white; margin thin, lacerate, appendiculate : context white or cream-colored, changing to bluish when wounded ; tubes plane in mass, adnexed, bright-yellow or tawny-yellow, sometimes with a pinkish tinge, becoming greenish-blue when injured, mouths of medium size, angular, edges thin : spores ellipsoid, longitudinally striate, dark-brown, 16-18X6-8^: stipe 5-10 cm. long, 1-2 cm. thick, cylindric, even, pure-white or very light-brownish, sometimes tinged with pink, changing to dull-red when wounded, solid or slightly hollow within ; veil present in young stages, but mostly clinging to the margin of the pileus, leaving only a slight trace of an annulus in mature specimens.
Type locality : Santee River, South Carolina.
Habitat : Parasitic on wounded pine trunks or about the base of living pine trees Distribution : North Carolina to Alabama and Mississippi.