Bolete & Suillus

MS-011

Bolete & Suillus

2014 – 2016

MediumCanvas, Oil

Size21 x 19 inches

StatusCompleted

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King Bolete and Suillus

As in any proper garden, there was delight.

He grows and leans over to her. She bears fruit and opens. The grass is green, the anuses are brown. The flesh of the fruit body is white, thick and firm; often slimy and sticky and moist.

Their genus name is derived from the Latin sus, meaning “pig”. The presence of a partial veil in immature forms, the young fruit bodies resemble piglets with soft flesh and tubular hymenium.

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Bolete & Suillus

MS-011