Russula fageticola    Melzer ex S. Lundell 

common name(s) : Beech Russula 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Russulaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Russulales/Russulaceae  

synonyms: Russula mairei-fageticola 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Russula fageticola
photo gallery of  Russula fageticola potential confusions with  Russula fageticola toxicity of Russula fageticola genus Russula  

The cap is bright red to carmine red, convex then depressed; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is pure white, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging or very slightly yellowing; its taste is acrid; the odour is faint, fruity or of coconut for young specimens; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick).

The gills are white, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, under broad-leaved trees, on a rather neutral to acid soil, most of the time with beech, sometimes oak.

The fruiting period takes place from October to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 5 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 10 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : flesh becoming ochraceous (without orange) when in contact with iron sulphate; positive reaction to Gaïac (quite bright blue); strong purple reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin.

Distinctive features : Bright scarlet-red cap, slightly depressed and not discoloured to yellow; firm flesh (unlike R. mairei or R. emetica); white gills, with a greenish tinge; under beech

Russula fageticola is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Russula fageticola in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Russula fageticola in the forest of Rambouillet



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