Hygrophorus pudorinus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Rosy Woodwax 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Hygrophoraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales [sub-genus:Hygrophorus section:Hygrophorus sub-section:Pudorini]  

edibility : discard

potential confusions with  Hygrophorus pudorinus toxicity of Hygrophorus pudorinus genus Hygrophorus  

The cap is pinkish-buff to orange yellow, darker at the centre, convex then flattened, sometimes with an obtuse umbo; its margin is smooth to slightly grooved or wavy, inrolled for a long time. The cap surface is smooth, viscid to slimy in damp weather, drying matt and sticky when moist.

The stem is white, full and firm, plein et ferme, washed with yellow or orange with age at its base, with flaky dots especially at the top, slightly viscid below in damp weather, without ring.

The flesh is white, slightly salmon under the cap surface, unchanging; its taste is mild but unpleasant, according to authors: of resin, bitter, acrid, or turpentine; the odour is aromatic and more or less unpleasant, according to authors, of turpentine, jasmine, chemical compound, resinous, thuya, or death cap; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, then tinged with salmon pink or buff especially down the bottom, adnate to decurrent, distant and waxy . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, in the mountains, with fir.

The fruiting period takes place from August to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 9 cm (between 2 and 18 cm)
  height of stem approximately 9 cm (between 3 and 13 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 20 mm (between 8 and 30 mm)

Chemical tests : stem becoming orange yellow when in contact with potash.

Distinctive features : Buff to pinkish or pale orange cap, slightly viscid; white step, tinged with yellow at its base; white gills, washed with salmon, slightly decurrent, distant and waxy; odour and taste of turpentine or resin;with fir, in the mountainis, on calcareous soils

Hygrophorus pudorinus is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hygrophorus pudorinus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hygrophorus pudorinus in the forest of Rambouillet



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