Bog Bolete (Suillus flavidus)

Suillus flavidus

Wet, boggy forests, most often among sphagnum, under young pines. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap grows up to 5-6 cm across, not fleshy, yellowish, greyish-yellowish, slimy. Tubes yellowish, pinkish-yellow. Stem 5—9x1-2 cm, usually bent, crooked, with a ring. Flesh yellowish, greenish, when old watery, thin, soft, not changing colour. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies not fleshy, growing in raised bogs among sphagnum. Appears singly or a few fruiting bodies together. Edible, but not equal to the Slippery Jack, the Velvet Bolete or the Jersey Cow Bolete. Of low value.