Cortinarius cinnabarinus Fr. |
common name(s) : Cinnabar Webcap
synonyms: Telamonia cinnabarina
edibility : deadly poisonous
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The cap is dark red orange to cinnabar-red, paler when drying (hygrophanous), conical then expanded and flattened, with or without an umbo; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is smooth, with fibrils, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is orange-red or cinnabar-red, without ring, with a cortina. The flesh is cream-orange to red-brown, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is weak, of radish; its texture is fibrous. The gills are cinnabar red then rusty brown, emarginate to adnate, distant . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, most of the time with beech, but also with oak, hornbeam. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Distinctive features : cinnabar red mushroom, turning orange when drying; silky, smooth, hygrophanous cap; cinnabar red gills, eventually rusty brown; odour of radish, faint; with beech Cortinarius cinnabarinus is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
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