Hygrophorus leucophaeus (Scop.) Gillet |
common name(s) : Twotone Woodwax
synonyms: Limacium leucophaeum ss.Rick., Hygrophorus unicolor edibility : edible
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The cap is brown pink, orange-brown, whitish. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky. The stem is whitish, without ring. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is faint; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white to pale salmon pink, decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, hornbeam. The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Chemical tests : no reaction when in contact with potash. Distinctive features : white cap, with a darker red-brown centre from the very youth, slimy; dry or slightly viscid stem, white and slightly washed with rust; with beech Hygrophorus leucophaeus is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
page updated on 14/01/18 |