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

synonyms: Rostroter Lärchenröhrling
Suillus tridentinus Mushroom
Ref No: 9012
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edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Orange
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Distinctly scaly
stem type: Ring on stem
flesh: Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: Light to dark brown
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Suillus tridentinus (Bres.) Sing. syn. Boletus tridentinus Bres. Rostroter Lärchenröhrling. Cap 5–12cm across, orange or reddish-brown with darker adpressed indistinct scales, covered in apricot gluten. Stem 40–75 x 12–20mm, white to yellow at apex, dotted brownish to vinaceous below, with a rust-coloured net and a white to yellowish ring. Flesh pale lemon-yellow with faint pinkish tinge in cap which gradually deepens on exposure to air. Taste and smell pleasant. Tubes 1–5mm long, subdecurrent, yellow to orange, finally rust. Pores often compound, angular, yellow-orange becoming deep orange to rust-coloured with age. Spore print dark straw-yellow with a sienna tint. Spores elliptic, 10–13 x 4–5um. Habitat with larch. Season autumn. Rare, more frequent in Southern England. Edibility unknown. Found In Europe.

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