Rugosomyces ionides (Bull.:Fr.) Bon |
The cap is lilac-blue to violet-blue, with a darker centre and sometimes with a tinge of brown, convex then flattened, without any umbo, or broadly umbonate; its margin is lighter in colour, striate then smooth. The cap surface is smooth, finely felty, matt, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is viloet-blue like the cap, whitish at the very top, cylindrical and hollow, without ring. The flesh is whitish to pale lilac at stem base, unchanging; its taste is mild, mealy; the odour is mealy; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white to cream, contrasting with the cap, adnate to emarginate, thin and crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved or coniferous woods, on humus-rich or calcareous soils, on a rather calcareous or rich with humus soil. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : viloet-blue cap, contrasting with the white to cream crowded gills; stem concolorous to cap, but white at the very top; on damp and humus-rich soils of coniferous or deciduous forests Rugosomyces ionides is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking . | ||
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