Leccinum holopus var. americanum
A. H. Smith and Thiers

Photograph by T. J. Baroni ©1998
An all-white Leccinum with a long slender stipe. The context is white and unchanging in var. holopus, but changes to reddish in var. americanum. It prefers moss banks, often along the edges of bogs.
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