Identifying Your Bolete
4.5
POOR MAN'S SLIPPERY JACK
Suillus tomentosus
Frequency
Frequent
Habitat Area
Under conifers, mainly Jack Pine.
Cap
Viscous, appressed grayish-fibrillose when young, becoming darker brown to olive-brown at maturity.
Margin
Even.
Tubes
Short, adnate, sometimes decurrent.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface yellow-brown when young, paler in age, staining blue when bruised; pores angular up to 1 mm wide.
Stalk
Nearly equal, whitish to reddish, apex yellow.
Stalk Feature
Covered with orange-brown glandular dots.
Flesh
The main feature is that the flesh turns blue in places, often above the tubes.
Basal Mycelium
Ochraceous to salmon-buff.
Chemical reactions
Flesh: towards brown with KOH, NaOH and the flesh collapses; towards gray with FeSO4.
Cap and stipe: towards brown with KOH, NaOH and phenol; towards gray with FeSO4.
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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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