Russula cyanoxantha fo. peltereaui Singer |
The cap is greenish; its margin is striate when mature. The cap surface is smooth, slightly viscid in wet weather. The stem is white, sometimes washed with lilac, without ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are white to cream, free to adnate, crowded . The spore print is whitish. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on a rather acid or slightly calcareous soil, with birch, oak, beech, spruce, pine, hornbeam, chestnut. The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming very slowly greenish (or no reaction) when in contact with iron sulphate; reaction of cap cystidia very faint or negative to sulpho-vanillin; Gaïac moderate.. Distinctive features : white to cream gills, flexible and non brittle, greasy to the touch; green cap; white flesh; green or no reaction to iron sulphate Russula cyanoxantha fo. peltereaui is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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