Laccaria proxima (Boud.) Pat. |
The cap is reddish brown, convex then flattened to depressed. The cap surface is not viscid nor sticky. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous. The gills are flesh pink, adnate to decurrent, distant . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal or saprophytic. It grows on the ground, on a rather acid and poor soil, with oak, birch, fir. The fruiting period takes place from August to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : red-brown cap, scaly near the centre, with a non striate margin; slender and furrowed stem, same colour as cap; pink gills; white mycelium at base; in poor and humid soils Laccaria proxima is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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