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common name(s) : Amethyst Deceiver
synonyms: Laccaria amethystea, Laccaria laccata-amethystina
edibility : edible
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The cap is violet, convex then flattened to depressed; its margin is striate in damp weather, often wavy. The cap surface is smooth to slightly felty-scaly, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is violet, getting much paler when drying, without ring. The flesh is lilac, unchanging; its taste is faint or not distinctive; the odour is weak or not distinctive; its texture is fibrous. The gills are purple, adnate to decurrent, distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 13 ). The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal or saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, in troops, most of the time with beech, also with chestnut, oak. The fruiting period takes place from June to March.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : entirely purple-lilac to very pale lilac or buff (dry), faint odour; lilac gills, distant and thick; tough stem; small size; in wet places Laccaria amethystina is frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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page updated on 14/01/18