- Cap convex to expanded, yellow-brown, with small dark scales or freckles.
- Tubes dark, grey-yellow to yellow-brown, often with reddish-brown pores, often bluing when touched.
- Stem the same colour as the cap.
- Flesh yellowish-white, often bluing when cut.
Suilloid boletes
Velvet Bolete
Suillus variegatus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine on pine heaths and rocky coniferous forest with reindeer lichen throughout the Nordic region, also occurs in mossy coniferous forest.
Notes
Somewhat sour in taste when fresh. If the mushroom is dried before preparation, the flavour matures for the better and the sourness disappears. All parts of the fruitbody can be used as long as they are firm in texture.
Similar species
Chalciporus piperatus lacks freckles on the cap and has a peppery taste.
Suillus bovinus lacks freckles, has larger pores, edible.
Suillus granulatus lacks freckles, has yellow tubes, good edible mushroom.
Suillus bovinus lacks freckles, has larger pores, edible.
Suillus granulatus lacks freckles, has yellow tubes, good edible mushroom.
