Russula silvestris    Singer ex Reumaux 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Russulaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Russulales/Russulaceae  

synonyms: Russula emeticella, Russula emetica-silvestris, Russula emetica-sylvestris 

edibility : poisonous

photo gallery of  Russula silvestris
photo gallery of  Russula silvestris potential confusions with  Russula silvestris toxicity of Russula silvestris genus Russula  

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.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2.5 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 13 mm (between 10 and 20 mm)

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



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