Boletellus ananas Boletellus ananas Boletellus ananas, commonly known as the pineapple bolete, is a mushroom in the family Boletaceae, and the type species of the genus "Boletellus". It is distributed in southeastern North America, northeastern South America, Asia, and New Zealand, where it grows scattered or in groups on the ground, often at the base of oak and pine trees. The fruit body is characterized by the reddish-pink (or pinkish-tan to yellowish if an older specimen) scales on the cap that are often found hanging from the edge. The pore surface on the underside of the cap is made of irregular or
Boletellus ananas although he admitted it was impossible to come to any definitive conclusions until mature fruit bodies and spore prints were available for study. Rolf Singer and colleagues (1992) suggested the name "Boletellus coccineus" for "Boletellus ananas". Singer created this name, however, in the mistaken belief that the earliest available name for the taxon was "Boletus coccineus", proposed by Elias Magnus Fries in 1838. However, Fries’s name is an illegitimate later homonym (compare with "Boletus coccineus", named by Bulliard in 1791), and Singer’s combination is actually based on "Strobilomyces coccineus", named by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1888. The earliest available name