Siberian butter dish (Suillus sibiricus)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Boletales
- Family: Suillaceae (Oily)
- Genus: Suillus (Oily)
- Species: Suillus sibiricus (Siberian Butter)
The cap of the Siberian oiler is 4-10 cm in diameter, slimy, broad-conical in a young fruiting body, cushion-shaped in a mature one, with a blunt tubercle, olive-yellow, dirty-gray-yellow, yellow-olive. With ingrown radial brown fibers.
The pulp and legs of the Siberian oiler are yellow, which does not change color at the fracture. The tubules are wide, 2-4 mm, at the edge of the cap they are narrower, yellow, running far down the pedicle.
The leg of the Siberian oiler is 5-8 cm long, 1-1.5 cm thick, often curved, sulfur-yellow, with reddish-brown warts', underneath is dressed with a white, dirty salmon mycelium.
The bedspread is filmy, white, disappearing early.
Spores 8-12 × 3-4 microns, narrow-ellipsoid.
Grows in coniferous-deciduous and coniferous forests under the cedar, it is often found in large quantities in August-September.
Edible.
Somewhat similar to cedar butterdish, but the general color of the fungus is lighter, yellowish;
Grows in Siberia and the Far East with Siberian cedar and dwarf cedar; outside Russia recorded in Europe; as an invasive species it is known in the culture of the Siberian cedar in Estonia.
