MUSHROOMS
Slippery Jill
Assisted identification only. Never eat anything without an expert’s confirmation.
3–8 cmCap
Fungus with a cap of 3–8 cm. Grows in forests. Spore print brown. Lives in symbiosis with tree roots: the fungus brings water and minerals, the tree feeds it sugars.
There are 16 observations of Slippery Jill in Québec, mostly in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Nord-du-Québec and Laurentides, and it has been reported in 6 of the 17 regions. They peak in August and become rare from November to June.
