Russula silvestris Singer ex Reumaux |
The cap is bright red to pale red, never violaceous, convex then flattened and a bit depressed; its margin is striate when mature. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white, compressible, without ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is acrid; the odour is fruity or of coconut; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are white, adnexed, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods (less frequently with conifers), on a rather non calcareous soil, often with oak, chestnut, beech. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming salmon pink when in contact with iron sulphate; strong purple reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin. Distinctive features : pink to red cap surface, entirely peelable, the flesh being white underneath; coconut odour; pure white stem and gills; very acrid taste Russula silvestris is frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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