Cortinarius pholideus (Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is ochre brown to orange-red brown, with a central umbo. The cap surface is not viscid nor sticky. The stem is same colour as cap, with a ring zone (cortina remains). The flesh is violaceous in the apex of stem or above the gills, pallid ochre brown elsewhere, unchanging; the odour is faint, pleasant; its texture is fibrous. The gills are violaceous then red brown, adnate, rather distant . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in damp broad-leaved woods, peatlands, or amongst sphagnum, on a rather acid soil, with birch most of the time, but also with poplar, oak or conifers. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Distinctive features : Cap covered with small brown scales; stem lilac-blue at the apex, and banded with scaly belts below the ring zone; purple gills in the youth; Cortinarius pholideus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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