Russula betularum Hora, (birch brittlegill)


9 Sep 2001 at OSGR: SU46 in Berks, England

Record Summaryunder boggy Birch
Found asFruitbody
Date9 September 2001
Associated organismBetula
Habitat featureboggy ground
OS grid refOSGR: SU46
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 1° 20’ W
Vice CountyBerks, VC no: 22
CountryEngland
Voucher9 Sep 2001[D]
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Notes:

Cap: centre brownish "vinaceous", margin pinkish "D" to pale pink, peeling to 75%, margin becoming sulcate.

Gills: thin, brittle, subdistant, yellowing towards margin of cap.

Gills and stipe yellowing, waxy-looking

Stipe: long, narrow, brittle, elongate reticulately veined.

Fe+ weakly brownish

Smell: honey (like R. mairei)

Taste: (cap) hot

Spore print: midway between "A" and "B".

Dermatocystidia: medium stainnig, mixed: mostly clavate, 0-1 septate; a few cylindric, 1-3 septate.

Spores: 8-10.5/7.5µm, warts up to 1µm high, connectives abundant, many meshes and reticulum almost complete.

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