Tricholomopsis rutilans (Schaeff.:Fr.) Singer |
The cap is with dense red scales on a yellow background, convex, with a very broad umbo; its margin is smooth to more or less striate. The cap surface is scaly, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is yellow, with red scales, without ring. The flesh is cream to yellow, unchanging; its taste is mild or bitter; the odour is faint, of mould or rotten wood; its texture is fibrous. The gills are yellow, almost free to emarginate or sinuate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, often in small tufts, on or around stumps of conifers, most of the time with pine, spruce, fir. The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : Cap and stem entirely covered with fine purple-reddish scales on a yellow background; egg-yellow gills; on coniferous stumps Tricholomopsis rutilans is occasional and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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