Identifying Your Bolete
3.10
SLIPPERY JILL
Suillus salmonicolor, Suillus subluteus
Frequency
Rare
Habitat Area
Under pines, mainly Jack Pine, in mosses.
Cap
Dominant colour: yellowish-brown on all parts.
Cap sticky, viscous.
Margin
Appendiculate with velar remnants.
Tubes
Short, adnate.
Pores and Pore Surface
Pore surface yellow to salmon, immutable or browning slightly when bruised; pores circular to angular, 1-2 per mm.
Stalk
Nearly equal, concolorous with the cap.
Stalk Feature
With brown glandular dots.
Flesh
Orange-yellow to orange-buff, immutable.
Chemical reactions
KOH: bluish gray on the flesh, blackish on the cap and tubes.
NaOH: bluish gray on the flesh, purplish on the cap and brownish on the tubes.
Comments
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Edible and very good for some and not recomanded for others.
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For more informations
Refer to Boletes - Quebec et East of Canada.
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