Identifying Your Bolete
4.6
SPICY BOLETE
Suillus punctipes
Frequency
Rare
Habitat Area
Under Balsam Fir, Jack Pine and spruces. Among mosses.
Cap
Viscous, glutinous, covered with brown fibrils when young and dull ochre-orange in age.
Margin
Even, sometimes appendiculate.
Tubes
Short, adnate, always brown even young.
Pores and Pore Surface
Tubes and pore surface brown from a young age, a feature unique to this species. Pores circular to angular, 2 per mm.
Stalk
Equal to enlarging toward the base, of a pale color.
Stalk Feature
Densely covered with brown glandular dots.
Flesh
Pale yellow, sometimes turns slowly blue in places when cut.
Basal Mycelium
White.
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Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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