Suillus pungens, commonly known as the pungent slippery jack or the pungent suillus, is a species of fungus in the genus Suillus. The fruit bodies of the fungus have slimy convex caps up to 14 cm (5+1⁄2 in) wide. The mushroom is characterized by the very distinct color changes that occur in the cap throughout development. Typically, the young cap is whitish, later becoming grayish-olive to reddish-brown or a mottled combination of these colors. The mushroom has a dotted stipe up to 7 cm (2+3⁄4 in) long and 2 cm (3⁄4 in) thick. On the underside on the cap is the spore-bearing tissue, consisting of minute vertically arranged tubes that open as a surface of angular, yellowish pores.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Pungent Slippery Jack being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
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Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Boletales
- Family
- Suillaceae
- Genus
- Suillus
- Species
- Suillus pungens
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