Rhodocollybia maculata (Alb. & Schwein.:Fr.) Singer |
The cap is white, then with rust stains, convex or flat, sometimes irregular, sometimes a bit umbonate; its margin is smooth or slightly wavy, sometimes radially cracked. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white, with red stains when mature, tough, often rooting, cylindrical, or slightly swollen towards base, without ring. The flesh is white to pinkish, unchanging; its taste is very bitter, sometimes mild; the odour is faint, pleasant or mushroomy; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white to cream, stained with rusty red, adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 35 ). The spore print is pinkish to cream. This species is saprophytic, sometimes parasitic. It grows on the ground (sometimes on recently buried wood), in deciduous or coniferous woods (more frequently with conifers), on a rather acid soil, with beech, spruce, pine. The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : White cap and stem, with rusty stains (rarely totally white), especially with age or where bruised; bitter taste; tough stem; very crowded gills Rhodocollybia maculata is frequent and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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