Russula persicina Krombh.
Cap 4-13cm across, soon flattened and depressed; fleshy; bright red to scarlet or blood, even garnet red, often de-colored at center; glabrous; cuticle hardly peels. Gills thick, rather crowded; pale cream. Stem 25-80 x 10-25mm, fleshy; white, sometimes with a flush of pink, browning slightly with age. Flesh white. Odor distinctive. Taste mild at first, then somewhat acrid. Spores ovoid, 6.5-9.2 x 5.7-7.5µ; warts up to 1µ, high, isolated, with almost no connectives. Deposit cream (C-D). Habitat under beech and conifers. Apparently widespread. Found in eastern North America but rarely recorded. Season August-October. Not edible. Comment This is undoubtedly one of a number of species that have gone under the catchall name of Russula emetica, from which it differs in spore color and ornamentation.