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-Growing gregariously in open mixed oak woodland edge.
-Nearby Trees: Black Walnut, American Linden, Bur Oak, Northern Red Oak, Elm, Ash and Black Oak.

-Cap light orange, bald, slowly bruising dark blue where handled/damaged. Pileipellis color rubbing off on fingers and collection bag.
-Hymenium dingy orange, with large circular pores that quickly bruise dark blue where handled/damaged, sunken at stipe apex.
-Stipe light yellow at apex with numerous small reddish-brown scabers, turning wine red and subtomentose at base.
-Basal mycelium pale yellowish.
-Tube layer easily separable from orange trama.

-Outer flesh staining wax bags yellow.
-Smell: not distinctive
-Taste: not distinctive
-KOH: Dark orange on pileipellis, stipe flesh and tube layer, and pale orange on trama.
-Ammonia yellowish-green on pileipellis, pale orange on trama, yellowish on tube layer and stipe flesh.
-FeSO4 dark gray on pileipellis.

• Spore Print: light olive brown.