ID PLZ..Saffron Milk Caps & Suillus Granulatus Boletus?

[Tempest]

Hi,

I discovered a haul of fungi on way home.
They look amazing - and i want to eat them!! Just trying to confirm i wont die. PLeeease help :)

These were all found under a large old pine tree in large abundance. There are 2 different type - I suspect they are:

* Saffron Milk Caps - because of the saffron coloured milk when i cut the stem - also turns slightly greenish after some time.
* Suillus Granulatus - yellow non bruising spores, shiny look cap and slightly sticky when damp - general leathery texture

[fungi2bwith]

I would agree with your ID. The first ones are definately a suillus. The other ones look like saffron milk caps. Providing you check they produce orange milk then you are not likely to poison yourself.

[Tempest]

Pheww!! Well, the Suillus went into an Omellette today and all is good. They are now marked in my mental map of the woods for next years haul.

Thanks :)

[frozenthunderbolt]

Your suillus, I'm fairly sure are what we would call a Slippery Jack - edible, if a little snot like on the top.

[MKG]

Snot-like - a wonderful description

I'm wondering how the author of a fungi guide would struggle to find a better phrase

Mike

[fungi2bwith]

My first thought was slippery jack, but slippery jacks have a ring on the stem whcih is not obvious to me in the pictures. However, the dotted stem is typical of S jacks.

Some guides say that slippery jacks need the caps peeling because the skin can give you the mild runs. However, I have often been lazy and not done this without any problems.