| Russula chloroides (Krombh.) Bres. |
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common name(s) : Blue Band Brittlegill
synonyms: Russula chloroides-chloroides, Russula delicula
edibility : unknown edibility
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The cap is white, stained with yellow, convex then depressed. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white, with a blue-green collar where the gills meet the stem. The flesh is white, firm, unchanging; its taste is mild to unpleasant, hot in gills; the odour is fruity, more or less strong; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are white, staining orange, with blue-green shades, decurrent, very crowded . The spore print is white to cream (A-C). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather acid or neutral soil, most of the time with beech.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming reddish when in contact with iron sulphate; intense and positive reaction to Gaïac. Distinctive features : white cap, stained with red, very depressed in its centre; narrow gills with shades of blue-green, decurrent, crowded, with a blue-green mark where gills join the stem; creamy white spore print Russula chloroides is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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