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| location: North America |
| edibility: Edible |
| fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Orange |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped |
| stem type: Simple stem |
| flesh: Flesh granular or brittle, Mushroom slimy or sticky |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Russula bicolor Burlingham
Cap 4-8cm across, convex then flattened; surface copper red mixed with yellow-orange or pale ochre; smooth, viscid when wet; cuticle separable for one-quarter of radius. Gills sub-crowded, broad; white. Stem 30-70 x 10-20mm, spongy; white. Flesh white. Odor not distinctive. Taste acrid. Spores ovoid, 8-10 x (6)7-8µ; warts less than 0.5µ, almost no connecting lines. Deposit white (A). Habitat particularly under birch. Found in both eastern and western North America. Season August-September. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous) |
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Christine Gradijan (United States) - 15 November 2010
I wonder if anyone can help me identify this beautiful mushroom, photographed at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA, in late October. Sorry, that is all the info I have.
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