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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink, Violet or purple, Grey to beige |
| normal size: 5-15cm |
| cap type: Convex to shield shaped |
| stem type: Simple stem |
| flesh: Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Flesh granular or brittle |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Russula odorata Romagnesi.
Cap 3-5cm across, convex becoming flatter, soon depressed; dull purplish red, brown, rosy, or grayish red, fading to buff; fragile; margin sulcate; cuticle peels almost completely. Gills thin, strongly interveined; deep ochre-yellow. Stem 25-80 x l0mm, fragile; white bruising slightly yellow. Flesh white. Odor rather aromatic. Taste mild to slightly hot. Spores ovoid, 6.7-8.5 x 5.7-7µ; warts up to lµ, high, with partial reticulum. Deposit deep ochre (G-H). Habitat in mixed deciduous woods. Found in western North America. Season September-November. Edibility not known. |
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