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Description:\nThe cap is convex to depressed and is coloured a distinctive bloody red, pink, crimson or purple. Sometimes it may show a yellowish or orange tinge in the centre. It may measure between 6 and 20 cm in diameter. The flesh is white with a mild taste and without scent; it quickly becomes soft and spongy and also greyish. The crowded gills are cream coloured when young, and become yellow with age. They are adnexed and are generally thin. Their edges may sometimes occur reddish. The amyloid, elli spores measure 8–10 by 7–10 μm are warty and are covered by an incomplete mesh. The stem is white, sometimes with a pink hue, slightly clubbed. It may measure 5 to 15 cm in height and up to 3 cm in diameter.\nDistribution, ecology and habitat:\nR. paludosa is mycorrhizal and occurs in coniferous woodlands and in peat bogs of Europe and North America; preferably under pine trees, where it forms mycorrhizae. Locally it can be very common.\nEdibility:\nThe mushroom is edible and is a common good in Finnish markets.\n\nThis Nice Russula was found in the Voorsterbos (Noordoostpolder), the Netherlands, near a Pine Tree in October 2022.
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Russula krombholtzii Shaffer syn. Russula atropurpurea (Krombh.) Britz. non Pk. Feketésvörös galambgomba Blackish-red Russula. Cap 4-10cm across, convex then flattened with slight depression; dark blackish purple at center, paler, more blood red at margin, often mottled with paler, discolored areas; smooth, slightly viscid when wet. Gills adnexed, crowded; palish cream. Stem 30-60 x 10-20mm, fairly firm, later softer and easily broken; white, often becoming grayish with age. Flesh white. Odor rather fruity, of apples. Taste from almost mild to rather hot. Spores ovoid, 7-9 x 6-7µ; with warts joined by fine ridges to form a well-developed but not quite complete network. Deposit whitish (A-B). Cap cystidia abundant, cylindrical to somewhat club-shaped, without septa. Habitat usually under oak or other deciduous trees. Common. Found widely throughout northeastern North America, west to Michigan. Season June-October. Not edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) (source R. Phillips).
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