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Pine Spike
The common North American pine spike: a conifer-associated gilled bolete relative with an often pointed, slimy-when-fresh cap ranging from yellowish to reddish brown, distant decurrent gills that blacken with spores, and orange-tinged flesh. North American collections long called Chroogomphus rutilus are genetically inseparable from C. ochraceus. Like other Gomphidiaceae it is now thought to parasitize the mycorrhizae of Suillus species rather than form mycorrhizae of its own.
Reported edible but bland and not highly regarded (sources note it is poorly documented). Separate it from deadly webcaps (Cortinarius, orellanine), which have rusty-brown spore prints and a cobwebby veil; Chroogomphus has a smoky black spore print, distant decurrent gills and orange flesh.
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