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Public Description of Suillus tomentosus (Kauffman) Singer

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Name: Suillus tomentosus (Kauffman) Singer
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Description status: Unreviewed

Taxonomic Classification:

Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Basidiomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Suillus


General Description:

Suillus tomentosus

Cap covered with brownish hairy fibers (almost like felt some times) that are sticky when wet but can be washed off, bright yellow-ocher brown,
pores orange-brown darkening with age, quickly staining blue-green when bruised, scratched, broken, etc.
Spore print dark olive brown,
Stalk yellow or same color as cap, covered with small brown glandular sticky spots, also bruising blue-green,
Flesh soft almost cottony some times, pale yellow-almost white, staining blue-green,

see http://www.mushroomexpert.com/suillus_tomentosus.html


Distribution:

Cosmopolitan


Habitat:

Found under conifers, jack pine, lodgepole pine


Look Alikes:

Suillus variegatus found in Europe may be the same,
and Suillus reticulatus with reticulate stalk and is rare

Suillus punctipes has a fragrant odor and its pores do not bruise blue.


Uses:

edible


References:
Notes:

Current Name:
Suillus tomentosus (Kauffman) Singer, Mycologia 51(4): 570 (1960) 1959

Synonymy:
Boletus tomentosus Kauffman, Pap. Mich. Acad. Sci. 1: 117 (1921)


Description author: Johannes Harnisch (Request Authorship Credit)
Description editors: Nathan Wilson, walt sturgeon


Created: 2009-04-27 20:56:48 WET (+0000) by Johannes Harnisch (Johann)
Last modified: 2011-12-06 18:30:53 WET (+0000) by walt sturgeon (Mycowalt)
Viewed: 215 times, last viewed: 2012-05-08 02:41:54 WET (+0000)