Cortinarius alboviolaceus (Pers.:Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is pale lilac white then pale brown, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white to violaceous, bulbous, with a ring zone (remnants of blueish-white cortina). The flesh is pale lilac-white, unchanging; its taste is faint or bitter; the odour is faint; its texture is fibrous. The gills are pale lilac then brown, rather crowded . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with birch, also with oak, beech, hornbeam, chestnut. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Distinctive features : Pale lilac colour; cap with broad umbo (giving it a similar look to British Army's WWI Brodie helmet); stem slightly club-shaped; flesh blue in stem towards top; rather persistent cortina Cortinarius alboviolaceus is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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