Suillus americanus ?

[4rum]

Found 11-09-14, Southern West Virginia. These are in a mown field bordered by eastern black pine. The coating on some of them is so heavy that it will drip like a thin syrup. In reading, it sounds to me like they are NOT boletes, but mushrooms with pores in the Suillus family.

[Dave W]

Yup, a species of Suillus. When I first saw the photos of the caps, I thought S. luteus. But the stalk shows no sign of a partial veil. I think these may be S. brevipes.

Some people eat the slimy Suillus types, but only after removing the slimy cap cuticle. This is a fair amount of messy work. But as "eat-bolete" says in another thread, pickled Suillus is really popular in Russia. Not sure if they do this with every Suillus species, though. One Russian guy I know pickles S. granulatus and Armillarias. I apply this same method to Hen of the Woods. This is really a cold-storage marinate method. Mushrooms are par-boiled, immersed in spices vinegar solution, and stored in canning jars which are refrigerated.

[4rum]

The ones I've seen would be difficult to clean in any way except peeling. The tops are always covered with dirt, leaf litter, grass clippings etc. Thanks Dave for your response. Always informative, always helpful to a noob.

'rum

[Cedric]

Looks to me like Suilus Luteus, although the veil is not visible as they are quite grown. There should be smaller ones close by with the veil intact if that were the case.

[Dave W]

Another possibility is that more than one species of Suillus are growing closely together. Checking multiple specimens for signs of a partial veil would be a good idea.

[4rum]

All these, and a couple more were close together and it's always possible for two related species to be in one small area.

[eat-bolete]

how about S. Borealis?

[Dave W]

Certainly looks like S. borealis. According to "North American Boletes" S. borealis has a partial veil which does not form a ring on the stalk. But the range of this species is listed as the Pacific Northwest and the Rocky Mountains. The mushrooms seen in this thread were found in West Virginia. So S. borealis seems unlikely. There are many species of mushroom that occur in western NA and do not occur in eastern NA.

[4rum]

I've looked closely at several of these. I haven't seen a veil on any of them. Next time I'm there, I'll see if any are still present. This is the same area that something ate the orange amanitas. There are also some tiny bright red mushrooms that I think are amanitas too. I may go there today, weather permitting. These, again, are in a mowed field close to a border of black pine. The orange amanitas were under the pines. There is also a slimy topped gilled mushroom.