COMMON NAME: Slippery Jill.

CAP: (3-9.5 cm) wide, bluntly rounded or convex to nearly plane; surface sticky or slimy when moist, shiny when dry, color variable, dingy yellow, yellowish orange to ochraceous-salmon, cinnamon-brown or olive-brown to yellow-brown; flesh pale orange-yellow to orange-buff or orange, not staining when exposed; odor and taste not distinctive.

PORE SURFACE: yellow to dingy yellow, or yellowish orange to salmon, darkening to brownish in age, not staining when bruised; pores circular to angular, 1-2 per mm.

STALK: (2.5-10 cm) long, (6-16 mm) thick, equal or enlarged downward, whitish to yellowish or pinkish ochraceous, coated with reddish brown to dark brown glandular dots and smears; flesh ochraceous to yellowish; partial veil at first thick and distinctly baggy, sometimes flaring from the stalk on the lower portion, forming a gelatinous superior to median ring.

SPORE PRINT: cinnamon-brown to brown.

MICROSCOPIC FEATURES: spores 6-11 x 2.5-4 μm, elliptic, smooth, pale brown.

FRUITING: scattered or in groups on the ground under pine; August-November; fairly common.

EDIBILITY: edible.

COMMENTS: also known as Suillus subluteus and Suillus pinorigidus.

From Mushrooms of Northeastern North America Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. Bessette, & David W. Fischer  Copright © 1997 Syracuse University, ISBN 0-8156-0388-6