| Suillus bellinii (Inzenga) Kuntze |
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New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Suillaceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Boletales/Boletaceae synonyms: Suillus bellini
edibility : discard
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The cap is olivaceous white, then tinted with reddish-brown or sepia (as a reaction to light), but remaining discoloured at the margin, It is fleshy, of hemispherical then convex shape. The cap surface is very viscid, smooth. The cap margin is smooth, remaining whitish a long time. The stem is cream-white, yellowish at the top, quite short and conical, covered with distinct reddish to red-brick dots It has no ring. The flesh is white to cream, yellow in the top of stem; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, pleasant; The tubes are yellow then olive yellow. The pores are concolorous with tubes, with reddish stains, rather narrow. The spore print is olive brown. It grows in coniferous woods of Southern Europe, on a rather calcareous soil, exclusively associated to 2-needle pines. The fruiting period takes place from SeptemberSeptember to -January.
Distinctive features : viscous cap surface, olivaceous white then tainted with reddish-brown, the margin remaining whitish; stem without ring, white, yellow at the top, covered with distinctive reddish dos; yellow pores; whitish flesh, unchanging; under 2-needle pines on calcareous soil in Southern Europe Suillus bellinii is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
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