Russula paludosa Britz. Apfeltäubling.
Cap 4–14cm across, convex, later flattening and with a depression, red, blood-red, scarlet red, bay, apricot or ochre, sometimes with paler areas, fleshy, firm, slightly sticky when moist, half to three-quarters peeling. Stem 40–150 x 10–32mm, white or tinged pink in part or entirely, cylindrical, narrow club-shaped or swollen in the middle. Flesh white. Taste mild. Gills adnexed, rather pale creamy golden yellow, connected by veins at their bases. Spore print deep cream (E–F). Spores ovoid or elliptic with warts up to 0.7–1.2µ high, joined by lines to form a somewhat incomplete network, 8–10.5 x 7–8µ. Cap cystidia sparse, cylindrical, without septa, with a few granules staining in fuchsin, moderately reacting to SV. Habitat conifers. Season early summer to early autumn. Uncommon in Scotland, rare elsewhere. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous) Distribution, America and Europe.