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funferal
destroying angel
Registered: 11/06/12
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ID request: boletes
#17236307 - 11/17/12 03:49 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Habitat: Pacific Northwest, near Salish Sea shore, in a hemlock forest in moss under an immature cedar [5' high] & a number of mature hemlock.
Gills: Yellow tubes/pores.
Stem: Yellowish to white with brown patches, partial veil present. Flesh thick with yellow to cream colouring & brownish-red veins, bruising blue.
Cap: Light brown.
Spore print color: Brown.
Bruising: Blue bruising on inside flesh of stem.
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Kokanee Shroom
Amature Herpetologist

Registered: 09/12/10
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Loc: PNW
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Re: ID request: boletes [Re: funferal]
#17236331 - 11/17/12 03:54 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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sullius
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funferal
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Do you know the species? Michael Kuo at Mushroom Expert says this about the genus:
"The distinctive features highlight reel for this genus of boletes includes the following:
Growth under conifers Slimy caps Glandular dots on the stem Large pore openings that are often arranged radially A partial veil that leaves a ring or tissue hanging from the cap margin
The problem is, few of the Suillus mushrooms know they are supposed to manifest all of these features at once. This makes some of them a little difficult to identify to genus..."
I'm curious to know which one it may be, & what people around here think of it as an edible. If this is the "slippery jack," there seem to be conflicting reports on how good it is to eat.
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Kokanee Shroom
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Re: ID request: boletes [Re: funferal]
#17236499 - 11/17/12 04:30 PM (11 years, 3 months ago) |
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Could be Suillus tomentosus (blue staining slippery jack).
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funferal
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Quote:
Kokanee Shroom said: Could be Suillus tomentosus (blue staining slippery jack).
Hmm... looking up the specs, it doesn't look like it, as the specimens I have lack tomentum. Mine are also growing under hemlock as opposed to lodgepole pine.
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funferal
destroying angel
Registered: 11/06/12
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Re: ID request: boletes [Re: funferal]
#17237068 - 11/17/12 06:53 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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Okay... after a thorough search of boletes, I think the most likely candidate is suillus_caerulescens, or, more likely, suillus ponderosus. It stains blue on the stem & likes Douglas fir, which is also in the area where I found these.
"Suillus caerulescens is recognized by a viscid, innately streaked, yellow to tawny-brown cap, fibrillose veil, and blueing of tissue at the stipe base. Suillus ponderosus is closely related and sometimes occurs with S. caerulescens under Douglas fir, but it has a viscid, yellow to tawny-brown annulus, and the cap is less streaked."
My cap isn't very streaked.
"Edible but of mediocre quality."
Bummer.
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ehtdaedlufetarg
Toadstool Taxonomy


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Re: ID request: boletes [Re: funferal]
#17237516 - 11/17/12 08:32 PM (11 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
funferal said: Okay... after a thorough search of boletes, I think the most likely candidate is suillus_caerulescens, or, more likely, suillus ponderosus. It stains blue on the stem & likes Douglas fir, which is also in the area where I found these.
"Suillus caerulescens is recognized by a viscid, innately streaked, yellow to tawny-brown cap, fibrillose veil, and blueing of tissue at the stipe base. Suillus ponderosus is closely related and sometimes occurs with S. caerulescens under Douglas fir, but it has a viscid, yellow to tawny-brown annulus, and the cap is less streaked."
My cap isn't very streaked.
"Edible but of mediocre quality."
Bummer.
Yep, not very good, but tempting because of numbers and size!
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funferal
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Observation added to Mushroom Observer.
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