Russula paludosa Britzelm.
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common name(s) : Hintapink
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Russulaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Russulales/Russulaceae
synonyms: Russula elatior
edibility : edible
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The cap is blood red to brownish red or Bordeaux; its margin is smooth.
The cap surface is smooth, viscid in wet weather.
The stem is white washed with reddish, without ring.
The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive;
its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick).
The gills are cream to yellowish, free to emarginate, crowded .
The spore print is pale ochre to cream. This species is mycorrhizal.
It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather acid soil, often with blueberry bush, spruce, fir, pine, larch.
The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: | width of cap approximately 10 cm (between 3.5 and 20 cm) |
| height of stem approximately 10 cm (between 4 and 15 cm) |
| thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 25 mm (between 10 and 40 mm) |
Chemical tests : flesh becoming very faintly and slowly (15 mns) grey-greenish when in contact with iron sulphate; faint reaction to Gaïac; moderate purple reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin.
Distinctive features : Shiny, viscid cap surface; stem washed with red; cream to pale yellow gills; mild taste; with conifers in wet places, in the mountain
Russula paludosa is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Russula paludosa in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18