Russula lepida (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is bright pink to bright red; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white, sometimes washed with pink or red, without ring. The flesh is unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is minty; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick). The gills are cream, free to adnate, distant . The spore print is whitish to pale cream. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, with beech, hornbeam. The fruiting period takes place from May to December.
Chemical tests : flesh becoming slowly and faintly greenish-brown when in contact with iron sulphate; faint reaction to Gaïac; negative reaction of cap cystidia to sulpho-vanillin. Distinctive features : Cap surface entirely pink or red, yellowish in places, matt, velvety; very tough flesh (like a green apple), incompressible stem, tinged with red; bitter or minty taste; creamy-white gills, sometimes with a red edge Russula lepida is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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