- Cap convex to expanded with a depressed centre, brick-red to yellow-red, often paler yellow-orange towards the centre and with a low umbo, margin faintly striate.
- Gills white to cream-yellow, with cross-veins, sometimes with reddish edges.
- Stem white, often reddish towards the base.
- Flesh white, with mild taste.
Russula
Coral Brittlegill
Russula velenovskyi
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with birch in deciduous and mixed forest and is most common in the southern parts of the Nordic region. More rarely also grows under oak, spruce or pine.
Similar species
There are several red brittlegills that can be very similar, but the typical brick-red colour and the paler orange-yellow cap centre, combined with growth under birch, are good field characters.
