Cortinarius violaceus (L.:Fr.) Gray |
The cap is violet. The cap surface is not viscid nor sticky. The stem is violet, bulbous. The flesh is violaceous to whitish, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, of cedar wood; its texture is fibrous. The gills are purple then rusty red, adnate, distant . The spore print is rusty brown. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in damp broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) forests, with birch, oak, beech, hazel, fir. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming red when in contact with potash. Distinctive features : Velvety cap to finely scaly, violet-blue to dark violet; club-shaped stem, with same colour as cap; violet gills, washed rusty with age; odour or cedar wood, or thyme, or 'pencil wood' Cortinarius violaceus is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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