Suillus Americanus . The eastern counterpart to Siberian Slippery Jack
The flavor is excellent , compare to Shaggy Mane . Book shown is North American Mushrooms by Orson K Miller . Mushroom Demystified lists the Siberian Slippery Jack as average to below average flavor wise . I think the eastern counterpart must be much better .
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I thought slippery jacks and most suillus sp were poisonous.... Don't have MD around to look it up
According to my book none of the Suillus are poison . Only a few of the Boletacae ( suillus are a sub family of Boleteacea )( Bolete family that is the pored mushrooms ) are poison and all that are have red tube mouths or stain blue . Not all that stain blue are poison however .
Of course the Poly Pores also have pores and few are edible because of the woody nature , but no poison ones I am aware of .
Be careful with MD. Although a great book, it is old and outdated. I had it backwards, all edible, not poisonous. Boletus appendiculatus is a delicious blue stainer, but can be confused easily.
Yeah I like to stay away from look alikes . I am really really careful with the Agarics and stay far away from Amanitas altogether . I'm afraid if I needed a liver transplant they'd look at my age and overall health and say " sorry bout your luck buddy "
BTW Im an ex Screaming Eagle myself 1968/69
Cool. Currahee brother....
Amanita calyptrata/calyptoderma are delicious. But if unsure best to stay away from...
I have always called those "chicken fat suillus," I thought the slippery jacks had a veil. We have them around here, but they really look nothing like the Chicken Fats.
Chicken Fat is good for me . The Siberian Slippery Jack handle I got from Mushrooms Demystified . My main book ignores common names a lot . So Suillus Americanus is as common as it gets for Mushrooms of North America by Orson K Miller .
I guess he likes latin a lot .
Lol, lots of folks do. I like having it for differentiating between similar species, but wherever possible I like to use common names because that is what people will remember. Or sometimes I'll use latin to make myself sound smart :smartass: (the same way most people do) :innocent:
However, it can occasionally cause confusion. And there are some mushrooms I just don't know any common name for.....
Thats the same with me . The one coral mushroom I eat I have made its Latin name into a common name for me " Clavicorona " because I can always remember the crown(corona) which is how I ID it .
I see a shroom like this often so ill have to do research now that it might be edible.
All specimens I have found are under White Pine and that jives with the book . Little suckers like to hide under fallen logs etc and are hard to spot even with their bright color .