Cap sandy to rusty brown coloured. At first ovate and then convex. The skin can be removed. It has a freckly, downy surface in dry weather. The flesh is pallid ochraceous and turns blue when cut and thumbed. Pores at first ochraceous with olivaceous tinge, becoming more cinnamon-brown with age, sometimes bluish where bruised. Tubes are dark ochraceous or buff, adnate. Stem smooth and firm. Mottled yellow to a brown-yellow and thicker at the base. The stem has no ring. Spore print ochre or sienna-brown.
Microscopic Features: The spores are elongated and smooth, measuring 8-11μm in length and 3-4μm in width.
Note: Suillus tomentosus in North America is virtually identical to the European species Suillus variegatus but has glandular dots on the stem.
Suillus variegatus on the first-nature.com Web site.
Suillus tomentosus on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
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