Gray butter dish (Suillus viscidus)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Boletales
- Family: Suillaceae (Oily)
- Genus: Suillus (Oily)
- Species: Suillus viscidus (Greyish butter dish)
Other names:
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Larch gray oiler
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Blue oil can
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Larch gray tubular
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Boletus aeruginascens
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Suillus aeruginascens
Butter dish gray (Latin Suillus viscidus) is a tubular mushroom of the genus Butter dish of the Boletov order (Latin Boletales).
Places of Collection: Gray Oily (Suillus viscidus) grows in young pine and larch forests, often in large groups.
Description: The cap is up to 10 cm in diameter, cushion-shaped, often with a tubercle, light gray with a greenish or purple tint, mucous. The tubular layer is grayish-white, grayish-brown. The tubules are wide, descending to the stem. The pulp is white, watery, yellowish at the base of the leg, then brownish, without a special smell and taste. It often turns blue at the break. The leg is up to 8 cm high, dense, with a wide white felt ring, which quickly disappears as the fungus grows.
Use: Edible mushroom, category three. Harvested in July – September. Eat fresh and pickled.
When pickling, it is better to remove the skin from the caps (to facilitate cleaning, the mushrooms are dipped in boiling water for 1-2 minutes).
Similar species: The larch oillet (Suillus grevillei) has a bright yellow to orange cap and a golden yellow hymenophore with fine pores. The rarer red-red oiler (Suillus tridentinus) also grows under larch trees, but only on calcareous soils, it is distinguished by a yellowish-orange scaly cap and an orange hymenophore.
Photo of the mushroom Greyish canyon from the questions in recognition:
2016.09.20 Mikhail
