Local Name
Khork’lebiani dumasok’o (1).
Description
Cap: The cap is 3–10 cm, convex becoming broadly convex, sticky or slimy, smooth, variable in color but typically buff, yellowish, or pale cinnamon at first, becoming darker cinnamon brown or orange brown, often with the color breaking up in maturity to form a patchwork pattern, without partial veil remnants. Pore Surface: Whitish at first, soon yellowish, often with droplets of cloudy liquid when young, not bruising, or bruising and spotting cinnamon to brownish, pores about 1 mm wide at maturity, not strongly boletinoid but sometimes weakly so in age. Stem: The stem is 4–8 cm long, 1–2 cm thick, equal or with a tapering base, with tiny, tan or brownish glandular dots on the upper half, without a ring, white, developing bright yellow shades near the apex or overall. Flesh: The flesh is thick, whitish at first, but soon pale yellow, not staining on exposure. Spores: The spores are 8–10 X 3–4 µm, smooth, subfusiform, yellowish, ochre or sienna-brown.
Habitat: With various pines. Season: Summer, autumn.
Distribution: All regions of Georgia (2).
Uses
Edibility: Edible when young, fresh and marinated (1).
Kartli — “We gather Duma sok’o in pine forests” (3).
Note: In Georgia rarely gather Duma sok’o, information about these mushrooms mainly came from Russian settlers and accordingly locals often call them Zeta or Masliata.
References
- Nakhutsrishvili, I.G. (2007) Fungi of Georgia. Tbilisi: Buneba Printi.
- Nakhutsrishvili, I.G., et al. (1986) Flora of Spore-producing Plants of Georgia (Summary). Tbilisi: Metsniereba (Russian).
- Modzghvrishvili, G. (2015) Vlg. Saguramo, Mtskheta.