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Suillus aeruginascens.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Cèpe visqueux, Grauer Lärchenröhrling
Suillus aeruginascens Mushroom
Ref No: 8967
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Suillus aeruginascens2 Mushroom
Ref No: 8968
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Ring on stem
flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Suillus aeruginascens (Secr.) Snell syn. Boletus viscidus L. ex Fr. Grauer Lärchenröhrling Cèpe visqueux. Cap 3–9cm, pallid, livid white or buff often flushed olivaceous buff or sometimes finally hazel, viscid and usually wrinkled. Stem 50–90 x 10–16mm, white to pale straw-colour flushed yellowish green with greyish net above the whitish to olivaceous buff ring, buff to ochraceous and viscid below. Flesh cream flushed olivaceous at base, becoming very slightly bluish-green on cutting particularly in the stem. Taste and smell not distinctive. Tubes more or less decurrent, dirty white tinged sulphur-yellow or buff, flushed vinaceous at maturity. Pores large, angular, similarly coloured bruising dirty greenish on handling. Spore print snuff-brown with vinaceous flush. Spores ellipsoid-subfusiform, 10–12 x 4–5.5um. Habitat with larch. Season late summer to late autumn. Rare. Edible but mediocre. Distribution, America and Europe.

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