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common name(s) : Surprise Webcap, Semi-sanguine Cortinarius
synonyms: Dermocybe semisanguineus, Dermocybe semisanguinea
edibility : deadly poisonous
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The cap is cinnamon-yellow to cinnamon-brown, convex then expanded, with a central umbo; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is chrome yellow, without ring, with a cortina. The flesh is yellowish to olivaceous, unchanging; its taste is mild or bitter, of radish; the odour is faint, of radish, raw potato or iodine; its texture is fibrous. The gills are blood red to cinnabar-rust red, adnate or emarginate, crowded . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous (sometimes deciduous) woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with spruce, pine, but also with birch, beech, chestnut, green oak. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : cap with umbo, tawny pale to olive buff, contrasting with blood red gills; pink or reddish mycelium; faint odour, of iodine or radish Cortinarius semisanguineus is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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