| Hygrophorus chrysodon (Batsch:Fr.) Fr. |
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common name(s) : Gold Flecked Woodwax, Gold-flecked Woodwax
synonyms: Limacium chrysodon edibility : edible
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The cap is whitish, with more and more shades of yellow, convex then soon expanded, sometimes with an obtuse umbo; its margin is smooth, acute, incurved or upturned, covered with tiny yellow cottony flakes that may give it a toothed shape. The cap surface is smooth, except at the margin, viscous in damp weather, drying matt. The stem is whitish or creamy-yellowish, more or less equal and sometimes a bit twisted, often with tiny yellow scales at the top, similar to the ones on the cap margin, and densifying to form a ring-like zone just below the gills, and viscid below that zone. The flesh is white to slightly yellowish, sometimes with a reddish tinge, watery, unchanging; its taste is mild, nutty or bitterish; the odour is faint, pleasant, according to various authors of mango, resin, bitter almonds, Jerusalem artichoke, prussic acid… ; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white to cream, with their edge sometimes lemon-yellow, decurrent to broadly adnate, distant and waxy . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in deciduous or coniferous woods, in warm areas, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, spruce. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : flesh reacting bright yellow instantly when in contact with potash. Distinctive features : viscid whitish cap, with its margin covered with small yellow cottony flakes; white stem, with its top dotted with densifying yellow flakes making a ring-like zone just below the gills, viscid below this zone; white gills, waxy and distant, more or less decurrent; white flesh with faint odour; in woods, favouring warm areas; on calcareous soils Hygrophorus chrysodon is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
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