Genus Leccinum
One of the most popular group of mushrooms are Boletes, or sponge mushrooms. They have pores instead of the gills and are easily recognized. If you avoid Boletes with red spore surface and blue staining flash/pore it is quite safe to assume that mushroom is edible. Some sources even recommend to completely ignore all gill mushrooms and concentrate only on Boletes. Genus Leccinum belongs to Boletes and has several distinct characteristics: pore surface always starts white and turns gray to black in maturity stalks are elongated and covered with dark projections (scabers) the flash and pore surface usually stain gray to black, although some very slow The whole genus contains some 75 species and they are quite common in the Northern hemisphere. The reputation of Leccinums is a little checkered. There is a number of reports of gastro-intestinal issues connected with these mushrooms. As far as quality goes, majority of sources rank them as "mediocre". In my area there is