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slippery jack

suillius luteus

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Description:

My mushroom pic is clear and shows the surrounding. I identified it and I think it is Slippery Jack. It lives in the kingdom fungi group. It has a lot of the same characteristics. One is the height of the stalk. They are both about 8 cm tall. My mushroom lives in a wet forest. There is a couple of the same kind of mushrooms around. Both the mushrooms have slimy caps. My mushroom has no spore print and is unattached. It has gills and is a light brown orange color. Its cap is thin and not long.

Kingdom: fungi
Division: basydiumycota
Class: agaricumycetes
Order: argaricales
Family: sulicare
Genus: sullius

Habitat:

This lives in a wet forest next to a pond

Notes:

this is kingdom fungi

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (9)
mmsbiodiversity78
its the same thing as scarlet waxy cap,golden waxy cap,orange waxy cap
mmsbiodiversity77
It looks a lot like mine. It has some of the same characteristics but instead I had got a Golden Waxy Cap.
KarenSaxton
A cup fungi look like a cup - usually without a stem
mmsbiodiversity60
That mushroom looks a lot like my mushroom!! But I thought it was a cup fungi!
KarenSaxton
Slippery jack doesn't have gills, it has sponge like spore tubes. It is also a bigger mushroom than this appears. Although the cap itself is a bit blurred, I"d agree with waxy cap as a starting point for ID
mmsbiodiversity79
I have a similar mushroom although i got a different conclusion. I thought it was orange waxy cap.

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PublishedDecember 22, 2011

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