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Boletus barrowsii, also known in English as the white king bolete after its pale colored cap, is an edible and highly regarded fungus in the genus Boletus that inhabits southwestern North America. Found under Ponderosa Pine and Live Oak in autumn, it was considered a color variant of the similarly edible B. edulis for many years.

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2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus_barrowsii

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