Hygrophorus marzuolus (Fr.:Fr.) Bres. |
common name(s) : March Wax Cap
synonyms: Camarophyllus marzuolus edibility : edible
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The cap is white then pearl grey to black. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white they greyish, slightly scaly at the top, without ring. The flesh is white to ash grey, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white to ash grey, decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil, with fir, pine, spruce, cedar, beech. The fruiting period takes place from January to June.
Distinctive features : white cap, soon stained with grey and black, fleshy, with a wavy margin, sticky and hardly viscid when damp; thick decurrent gills, white then blackish; early in the year (winter-spring), mostly in the mountains Hygrophorus marzuolus is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
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