| Russula fellea (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. |
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common name(s) : Geranium Brittlegill, Bitter Russula, Geranium Scented Russula
edibility : inedible
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The cap is yellow to ochre brown; its margin is striate when mature. The cap surface is smooth, slightly viscid in wet weather. The stem is pale ochre cream, without ring. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is acrid; the odour is of applesauce or geranium; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are yellowish, free to adnate, crowded . The spore print is whitish to pale cream. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, under broad-leaved trees, with beech. The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming buff cream when in contact with iron sulphate; faint or no reaction to Gaïac; strong purple reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin. Distinctive features : Straw-yellow to ochre-brown cap; gills and stem of same colour and paler than cap; flesh white then ageing ochre, acrid; smell of apple sauce or geranium; under beech or pine Russula fellea is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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