Suillus cavipes (Klotzsch) A. H. Sm. & Thiers 1964

Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Suillus cavipes is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Larix

Foodplant / mycorrhiza / ectomycorrhiza
fruitbody of Suillus cavipes is ectomycorrhizal with live root of Larix decidua

Boletinus cavipes (Opat.) Kalchb. Ic. Hymen
Hung. 52. 1877.
Boletus cavipes Opat. Comm. Bolet. 11. 1836.
Boletus ampliporus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26 : 67. 1874. (Type from New York.)
Pileus broadly convex, rather tough, flexible, usually subumbonate, 3.5-10 cm. broad ; surface soft, fibrillose-squamulose, tawny-brown, sometimes tinged with reddish or purplish : context thin, yellowish ; tubes slightly decurrent, pale-yellow when young, darker and tinged with green at maturity, becoming dingy-ochraceous with age : spores ellipsoid, olivaceous when fresh, changing later to yell owish-och race ous, 7.5-10X4^: stipe equal or slightly tapering upward, slightly fibrillose or floccose, tawny-brown'or yellowish-brown, yellowish at the apex, hollow within, sometimes stuffed when young, 3.5-7 cm. long, 6-12 mm. thick; veil white, evanescent, partly adhering to the margin of the pileus and partly to the stipe in the form, of a delicate annulus.
Type locality ; Hungary.
Habitat : Swamps or damp mossy places.
Distribution : New England and New York ; also in Europe.

Suillus cavipes is an edible species of mushroom in the genus Suillus. It is found in Europe and North America. It is associated with larch in the Pacific Northwest.

The brownish cap is dry, scaly, sometimes with veil remnants on the edge. The pores are buff. The stipe is yellowish above, sometimes with a slight ring, and cap-colored below; it is hollow, hence the epithet cavipes (Latin: 'hollow foot').