Suillus bovinus var viridocaerulescens
Under Pinus, Hertfordshire
🌟 a very happy rare colour variation find
With a broken ankle and stuck inside, I wasn’t expecting to find anything new this season… so a very cool blue staining colour variety suits me!
These were rather confusing, as they were typical bovines, but then I saw the blue - and there are a number of sources stating only Suillus bluing here is variegatus.. moral of the story - shouldn’t have doubted myself 😂 if all the features fit and one or some don’t... it might not be your identification that’s wrong, the sources might not be quite right, could be some environmental or conditional factor, or you might have convinced yourself wrongly. Leave it for another day and get some peer views 😎
