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Russula nigricans
Blackening brittlegill, or blackening russula shows broad, beige to pale-orange cap. It is flat and slightly depressed in the center, 10 to 12 cm in diameter. Gills large, pale rose in colour. Stem is large, stocky, about 5 cm tall. Flesh firm, when it breaks, it breaks like a chalk. Flesh, when damaged, quickly colours reddish-pink without emitting any milk.
Found growing isolated, one carpophore only on a mowed part of a meadow. Foothills of Jura mountains, our town park.
Spotted on Oct 10, 2017
Submitted on Nov 19, 2017
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Always glad to find IDs, in particular to some old spotting that rot in my "noy-yet-IDed" folder...