Russula almond (Russula grata) sary sy famaritana

Russula almond (Grateful Russula)

Russula laurel cherry or Russula almond (Ny t. Grateful Russula) was described by the Czech mushroom researcher V. Meltzer. Russula laurel cherry has a hat of medium size – from five to eight centimeters. At a young age, the cap is convex, then opens, and finally becomes concave. The hat is scarred along the edges.

The fungus is a member of the russula family, which has up to 275 different genera.

Like all types of russula, Russula grata is an agaric fungus. The plates have a whitish, creamy, less often ocher color. The location is frequent, the length is unequal, sometimes there may be a pointed edge.

The color of the cap of this mushroom varies. At first it is ocher-yellow, and as the fungus ages, it becomes darker, a distinct brownish-honey color. The plates are usually white, occasionally cream or beige. The old mushroom has plates of rusty shades.

Leg – light shades, from below – a brown shade. Its length is up to ten centimeters. Its pulp attracts attention – a burning taste with a characteristic almond tint. Spore powder is cream-colored.

Russula laurel cherry can be found in scattered areas, mainly in summer and autumn. It lives most often in deciduous and mixed forests, very rarely – in coniferous. Likes to grow under oaks, beeches. Usually grows singly.

Refers to edible mushrooms.

Russula is also very noticeably similar to valui. It is larger, has a burning taste and an unpleasant smell of spoiled oil. Also refers to the edible representatives of the mushroom kingdom.