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| location: North America |
| edibility: Edible |
| fungus colour: Yellow, Green, Violet or purple |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped |
| stem type: Simple stem |
| flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, 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 occidentalis Singer.
Cap 6-13cm across; usually purplish with yellow-green center but very variable in color, sometimes with bluish-green shades at center and bluish purple at margin; viscid when wet; cuticle peels halfway. Gills sub-crowded; pale yellow, blackening at margin with age. Stem 50-80 x 5-25mm, firm; white, often grayish with age, bruising reddish then brown. Flesh firm; white, turning slowly reddish when cut, then gray to black. Odor none. Taste mild. Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, 8-10 x 7.5-9µ; ornamented with large protuberances, some connected by lines. Deposit cream (B). Habitat under fir and hemlock. Common. Found in the Washington Cascades area. Season September-November. 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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