01/Sep/24, 4:35 PM
Raudoja veehoidla, Raudoja, Harjumaa, Estonia
Pine dominant forest, in mossy (Pleurozium sp.) trench
59°22'46.7"N 25°29'13.5"E
🔆 Mild overcast, forest shade
Original Instagram postRussula sanguinea
bloody brittlegill
- Scientific identification
- Russula sanguinea Fr.
- Family
- Russulaceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Russula
Names across languages
- English: bloody brittlegill
- German: Blut-Täubling
- Finnish: Verihapero
- Estonian: Verev pilvik
- Russian: Сыроежка кроваво-красная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-09-01.
Hymenium
Gills, the gills are adnexed to slightly adnate, crowded, and pale cream, turning brownish with age
Cap
convex at first, later flattening, sometimes with a central depression, surface is dry, smooth, blood-red color, sometimes with spots or patches of yellow
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to adnexed
Stipe
cylindrical, white to slightly pink, smooth, and solid, often becoming hollow with age
Spore print
Spore print pale cream to ochre
Ecology
Mycorrhizal with coniferous trees, pines, in acidic soils, found in mixed and coniferous forests, in late summer and autumn
Edibility
Inedible, known for its extremely acrid taste
Fruit body
Fruit body 5–10 cm wide, stipe 4–8 cm long, 1–2.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap: 4–10 cm in diameter
Odour
Odour faintly fruity.
Microscopy
Spores broadly elliptical to subglobose, 8–10 x 6.5–7.5 µm, with warts and partial reticulation, basidia tetrasporic, cystidia fusiform, hyphal system is monomitic
Overview
Striking red-capped Russula, characterized by its blood-red cap
1838). Epicr. Syst. Mycol. (Upsaliae): 351 (’1836-1838′).
Field encounters
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