Hypholoma lateritium (Schaeff.) P. Kumm. |
The cap is brick red; its margin is with white veil remnants. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is whitish or yellowish towards top, reddish at the base, with a ring zone (cortina remains). The flesh is pale yellow (brownish in the stem), unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is unpleasant; its texture is fibrous. The gills are pale yellow to greenish grey then purple grey, adnate, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 30 ). The spore print is purple brown. This species is saprophytic. It grows on wood (also on the ground, on buried wood), in tufts, in broad-leaved woods, on oak, beech, birch. The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Chemical tests : spores become yellowish brown in potash. Distinctive features : brick-red cap at the centre; ochre margin, often with yellow flakes of veil; cortina present on top of stem; grey-yellow to greenish gills; pale yellow to whitish flesh; on dead deciduous wood Hypholoma lateritium is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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