Cortinarius odorifer    Britzelm. 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Cortinariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Cortinariales/Cortinariaceae/Cortinarieae [sub-genus:Phlegmacium]  

synonyms: Phlegmacium odorifer, Cortinarius orichalceus ss.Bres. 

edibility : discard

potential confusions with  Cortinarius odorifer toxicity of Cortinarius odorifer genus Cortinarius  

The cap is copper-brown at the centre, blue-grey to grey-green at the margin, hemispherical, then convex to expanded; its margin is smooth and sharp. The cap surface is viscid, shiny when dry.

The stem is greenish yellow to brownish, not viscid, with a marginate bulb at its base, with a yellow to green cortina, eventually purple-brown.

The flesh is lemon yellow to greenish yellow; its taste is pleasant, of aniseed; the odour is strong, of aniseed or fennel; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are olive lemon yellow to greenish yellow, emarginate to slightly adnate, crowded . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, grows more frequently in mountainous areas, most of the time with spruce and fir, sometimes pine and cedar.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 4 and 11 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 5 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 20 mm (between 10 and 35 mm)

Chemical tests : flesh turns dark red when in contact with potash.

Distinctive features : copper-brown cap, with blue-green shades at the margin; bright yellow flesh, with a strong odour of aniseed; yellow-green gills in the youth; bulbous and marginate stem base; with conifers (spruce, fir)

Cortinarius odorifer is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Cortinarius odorifer in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Cortinarius odorifer in the forest of Rambouillet



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