Alnicola escharioides (Fr.:Fr.) Romagn. |
The cap is pale yellowish buff. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is yellowish brown, without ring. The flesh is brown to buff, unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is of radish or soil or sweet; its texture is fibrous. The gills are ochraceous to brown, adnate, crowded . The spore print is brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, on a rather damp soil, with alder. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Distinctive features : felty-downy cap; bitter taste Alnicola escharioides is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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