An underground, truffle-like fungus of western North American conifer forests, especially under Douglas fir. It has a yellow outer skin, an olive-brown spore mass, and a well-developed whitish to yellowish internal column (columella). It is a hypogeous relative of Rhizopogon and Suillus.
Edibility unknown. Not a food species.
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