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Mushroom Observer
(MUOB)
Catalog #: MUOB 364273
Taxon: Russula vinacea Burl.
Family: Russulaceae
Observer: Chris Cassidy
Number: MUOB 364273
Date: 2019-04-18
Verbatim Date: 2019-4-18
Locality: United States, Georgia, Rockdale, Panola Mountain State Park
33.634  -84.1567
Description: Original observation #364273 (Mushroom Observer)
Notes: Fruiting solitarily, under pine, hickory, oak and some sweetgum trees. Cap mostly purple, darker on the disc, some yellowish-olivaceous tones present. Stipe somewhat hollow. Gills attached, not forked, white though becoming more yellowish upon handling and drying; Deposit white - Taste mild, becoming faintly acrid within about 10 seconds, cuticle peeling relatively easy (>1/2), flesh grayish beneath cuticle. Spores subglobose to ellipsoid, ~ 7-9 x 5-6.5 μm, with scattered connections forming broken to partial reticula. Pleuro-and cheilocystidia abundant, fusiform to kind of mucronate, ~61-74 x 9-12 μm. Pileipellis a cutis with elements that are septate ~ 2.8-6 μm thick; pileocystidia long and slender with fusiform to subcapitate, or constricted tips; ochraceous-refractive in KOH.
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Usage Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Rights Holder: MO Observers
Record ID: 748acb75-77ab-4c46-9888-3f36b989c132
For additional information on this specimen, please contact: Nathan Wilson (nathan@collectivesource.com)
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