Russula paludosa    Britzelm. 

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

potential confusions with  Russula paludosa toxicity of Russula paludosa genus Russula  

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 .
here should be the distribution map of Russula paludosa in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Russula paludosa in the forest of Rambouillet



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