Laccaria bicolor    (Maire) P.D. Orton 

common name(s) : Bicoloured Deceiver, Two-Toned Deceiver 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Hydnangiaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Laccariae  

synonyms: Laccaria proxima-bicolor 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Laccaria laccata-bicolor, Laccaria laccata-pseudobicolor, Laccaria bicolor-pseudobicolor)  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of Laccaria bicolor
photo gallery of Laccaria bicolor potential confusions with Laccaria bicolor toxicity of Laccaria bicolor genus Laccaria  

The cap is orange-brown, ochre to flesh pink, paler when drying. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The flesh is white with lilac shades, unchanging; its taste is faint or not distinctive; the odour is weak or not distinctive; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are pale lilac, adnate to decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal or saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather acid and poor soil, with birch, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 4 and 14 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 4 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : lilac mycelial down at the base; yellow cap but purple gills and stem (especially at its base); on dry soils

Laccaria bicolor is quite rare and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Laccaria bicolor in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Laccaria bicolor in the forest of Rambouillet



page updated on 14/01/18