| Russula sanguinaria (Schumach.) Rauschert |
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common name(s) : Bloody Brittlegill, Tapering Russula
synonyms: Russula sanguinea edibility : inedible
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The cap is blood red to cherry red, discolouring to yellowish; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is smooth, viscid in wet weather. The stem is white, washed uniformly with pink or red, without ring. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is acrid; the odour is fruity; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are yellow to grey, adnate to decurrent, crowded . The spore print is pale cream to pale ochre (C-D). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather acid soil, with pine, larch. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : negative reaction or faint ochraceous when in contact with iron sulphate; positive reaction to Gaïac (quite bright blue); faint purple reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin. Distinctive features : blood-red to bright pink, matt cap surface; acrid flesh; pale lemon-yellow gills, eventually becoming grey; stem washed with red; with conifers (essentially pines) Russula sanguinaria is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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