T. citrina T. occidentalis T. rubra Truncocolumella is a genus of fungi in the family Suillaceae, of the order Boletales.
[1] It was circumscribed by American mycologist Sanford Myron Zeller in 1939.
[2] One field guide lists the potato-like Truncocolumella citrina as edible.
[3] • To determine the odour of Truncocolumella citrina mature fruiting bodies of were extracted in diethyl ether and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS).
The two major odor compounds that were identified are hexanoic acid and phenylacetaldehyde.