About Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A.Dick
Xanthoconium purpureum Snell & E.A.Dick is a species of bolete fungus that belongs to the genus Xanthoconium. It was formally described as new to science in 1962 by Wally Snell and Esther Dick. This fungus is found in eastern North America, where it produces fruit bodies growing under oak trees, and sometimes occurs in mixed oak-pine forests.