Russula velenovskyi Melzer & Zvára |
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.
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 . | ||
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