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Chicken Fat Mushroom Viscid yellow cap with reddish brown fibers and scales. This mushroom is mycorrhizal with eastern white pine and grows gregariously.  Fungus,Geotagged,Suillus,Suillus americanus,Summer,United States,chicken fat mushroom,mushroom Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Chicken Fat Mushroom

Viscid yellow cap with reddish brown fibers and scales. This mushroom is mycorrhizal with eastern white pine and grows gregariously.

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''Suillus americanus'' is a species of fungus in the Suillaceae family of mushrooms. Commonly known as the chicken fat mushroom, the American slippery Jack , or the American suillus, it grows in a mycorrhizal association with eastern white pine and can be found where this tree occurs in eastern North America and China.

Similar species: Boletales
Species identified by Christine Young
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Jan 6, 2018. Captured Sep 21, 2017 10:41 in 3353 VT-30, Dorset, VT 05251, USA.
  • Canon EOS 60D
  • f/5.6
  • 1/128s
  • ISO400
  • 100mm