Wine-stain Bolete
Xanthoconium separans
7/15/05
Grafton MA

A mature specimen that was not water logged by rain as the first I found.

On 7/23/05 I found a patch of 13 in Rutland.  Here are shown 10 of them.
Bill Yule thinks this might be Boletus varipes if the wine stain is missing.  It was missing on most of them.  It is present on the oldest and largest at bottom right.  Since they were growing in a very small area, they most likely are all separans.  I noticed that young separans have no wine colored stain in most cases.  It is good to know and be aware that there is a very similar species.

More pictures here.