Russula velenovskyi    Melzer & Zvára 

common name(s) : Coral Brittlegill 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Russulaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Russulales/Russulaceae  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Russula velenovskyi
photo gallery of  Russula velenovskyi potential confusions with  Russula velenovskyi toxicity of Russula velenovskyi genus Russula  

The cap is brick red to orange or coppery, roundel-coloured, discoloured to pinkish cream at the centre, convex then a bit depressed, with a central umbo; its margin is smooth or briefly striate when mature. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white, sometimes washed with pink or red towards base, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is weak or not distinctive; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick).

The gills are cream to yellowish, adnexed to almost free, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 40 ). The spore print is ochre (E-F). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with birch, sometimes pine.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 10 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : flesh becoming orange pink when in contact with iron sulphate; positive reaction to Gaďac (blue, more or less bright);.

Distinctive features : two-toned cap, red to bright orange or copper brown; cream to yellowish gills, with reddish edge; white flesh; stem spotted with ping near base

Russula velenovskyi is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Russula velenovskyi in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Russula velenovskyi in the forest of Rambouillet



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