I thought I had found a Boletus--ooops!

This grows all over an old cottonwood stump. I just have not had the time to try to identify.


This is the mushroom that my three-year old granddaughter handed me while we were visiting her house for her sister's first birthday. She says her daddy mows these when he mows the lawn. I thought this was of the Boletus genus until I attended the monthly SIMA meeting. I learned that it is of the genus Suillus luteus. Because my granddaughter's yard has something like forty Scotch pine trees (I think these are Scotch pines because it makes a difference in identifying the mushroom), the mushroom is probably the Slippery Jack. Slippery jack is commonly found in the Northeast USA, but because of the use of Scotch pines in landscaping popular in the sixties and seventies these mushrooms are now found in the Northwest. Arora says that it is said that this is the best of the Suilluses for eating, but he says that is faint praise.