Velvety brown cap,
Brown pores,
Brown, slender stipe with white basal tomentum,
Blue staining,
Eraser odor,
Growing trailside,
Near redwood/alder/sitka spruce
3100'
Sample collected.
Cap olive brown, glutinous.
Stem cream colored, sticky, somewhat bulbous at base, up to 7 cm X 2 cm
Gills olive brown, slight notch at stem.
Flesh whitish, yellow-brown in KOH, possible bluish tint at apex edges (see pic).
Spores almond-to-lemon shaped, 8 um X 5.5 um, no cystidia.
Found under lodgepole pine, no odor, cap is very glutinous. Purple to black with the application of KOH
Lacks the granular dots and host of Suillus placidus.
Based on a. H. SM and Thiers monograph of Suillus 1964 Suillus pallidiceps seems to fit the best for now.
Immediately discolors yellow upon bruising, then slowly turns orange to reddish brown. Growing under conifers.
A single young chunky/squat Telamonia-esque Cort beneath Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock.
Odor: not distinctive.
Entire specimen riddled with larva/maggots.
Salvaged a section of un-riddled cap to bring home.
Dehydrated 1/3 section of cap and bagged for my herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation linked below-