Suillus spraguei
Suillus spraguei is a species of fungi in the family Suillaceae. It is known by a variety of common names, including the painted slipperycap, the painted suillus or the red and yellow suillus. The mushroom is edible; opinions about its quality vary.
About Suillus spraguei in brief
Suillus spraguei is a species of fungi in the family Suillaceae. It is known by a variety of common names, including the painted slipperycap, the painted suillus or the red and yellow suillus. The mushroom is edible; opinions about its quality vary. It has a disjunct distribution, and is found in eastern Asia, northeastern North America, and Mexico throughout the range of the host tree. It bears a resemblance to several other Suillus species, including S. decipiens; the species can be differentiated by variations in color and size. The species is commonly known as the “painted slipperycap” or “painted suillus” It is commonly called the “red and yellow Suillus” to contrast with the “pink and white” Suillus pictus is also known as “the painted slippery cap” and “the pink and white suillus”. It is also commonly called “the red and green suillus”, “the green and blue suillus,” or “the yellow and red suillus”; the specific epithet “spraguei” is an homage to the collector Charles James Sprague, who collected the first specimen in New England in 1856.
It grows in a mycorrhizal association with several pine species, particularly eastern white pine, and the fruit bodies grow on the ground, appearing from early summer to autumn. The stalk bears a grayish cottony ring and is typically covered with soft hairs or scales. On the underside of the cap are small, yellow, angular pores that become brownish as the mushroom ages. The scales are pink to brown, fading to a pale yellow in maturity. The cap margin is initially rolled out before straightening out before hanging out, often with remnants of partial veil. The surface is covered with densely matted filaments that are often often with hanging remnants of partially hanging out before the cap margin. The fruit body is 3 to 12cm in diameter, depending on its age, but is either conic to convex or convex to dull-gray in maturity, or dull to a dull- gray or dull-yellow in maturity,. While the cap is yellow to yellow in mature maturity, the surface is pale-gray to pale-orange in maturity and is often covered with m densely mottled filaments.
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