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White Suillus
Scientific Name: Suillus placidus
Family Name: Boletaceae
Edibility: Good
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Description: Slimy, ivory cap with yellowish pores and dotted stalk; under eastern white pine. Cap: 1-1/4 - 4 inches (3-10 cm) wide; convex, becoming flat; slimy, smooth shiny when dry; white to ivory, becoming yellowish with slime, darkening with age. Flesh white, then yellow, bruising pale burgundy. Tubes: attached, rather shallow, eventually descending stalk; yellowish. Pores small, yellow, often dotted. Stalk: 1-5/8 - 4-3/4 inches (4-12 cm) long, 1/4 - 1 inch (0.5-2.5 cm) thick; white, yellowish with age, with brownish smears and dots; sometimes pinkish. Spores: 7-9 X 2.5-3.2 microns; elliptical, smooth. Spore print dull cinnamon. Edibility: Good. Season: July-October. Habitat: On the ground under eastern white pine; often abundant. Range: Throughout range of eastern white pine. [Lincoff, Gary H., The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mushrooms, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981]