| Russula queletii Fr. |
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common name(s) : Fruity Brittlegill
edibility : poisonous
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The cap is violet to purple red, Bordeaux, brown; its margin is striate when mature. The cap surface is smooth. The stem is violet pink, carmine red, without ring. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is acrid; the odour is of applesauce; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are cream, adnate to decurrent, crowded . The spore print is bright yellow to pale ochre. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with pine, spruce. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming salmon pink when in contact with iron sulphate; positive reaction to Gaïac (pale blue); strong purple reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin. Distinctive features : in the mountains; extremely rare in low grounds Russula queletii is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking . | ||
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