Suillus flavo-granulatus

Viscid yellow cap ages to pale yellow-tan. Yellow pores can be huge (2.5 mm across). White stem ages to yellow, w/pink-brown dots on the upper portion.

Description

Genus: Suillus

Species: flavo-granulatus

Common Name:

Tells: Viscid yellow cap ages to pale yellow-tan. Yellow pores can be huge (2.5 mm across). White stem ages to yellow, w/pink-brown dots on the upper portion.

Other Information: White cap flesh is yellow by the stem, DNS, & may smell “somewhat unpleasant.” Likes pines. Similar to S. granulatus , but that gets cinnamon tones in the cap & has much smaller, cinnamon-staining pores.

Edibility: Unknown.

CHEMICAL TESTS:

  • NH4OH (Ammonia): No data.
  • KOH: Cap flesh turns pinkish before shifting to dull lilac.
  • FeSO4 (Iron Salts): Cap flesh turns olive.

Links:

National Audubon Society Field guide to Mushrooms, Gary Lincoff 0 Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians 0 North American Boletes 235

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