Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ BoletalesOrder
• └─ SuillaceaeFamily
• └─ SuillusGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

Lifestylemycorrhiza

Conservation statusleast concern

In troops in dry, open pine woodland; mycorrhizal with pine

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

• edible mushroom
• medicinal mushrooms

Edible, but soft and little regarded; best when young

• ▸ Convex, ochre, clay-brown to olive cap, slimy when wet, wavy at the margin
• ▸ Large, compound angular pores, olive-grey to dull brown, running down the stem
• ▸ Slender, ochre stem without a ring
• ▸ Often in close troops under pines, frequently alongside the Rosy Spike (Gomphidius roseus)

A gregarious late-summer and autumn bolete of dry pine woodland. Its unusually large, maze-like compound pores and the absent ring separate it from the Slippery Jack (Suillus luteus).