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Red cap with white gills
Russula sp. Genus
Angles captured. Four field frames, plus six of the cap and its print together.
Morphology
Cap 7–9 cm, deep crimson to blood-red, smooth, flat with a slightly depressed centre. Gills white, brittle, and evenly spaced. Stipe white and chalky. Spore print white to pale cream.
Habitat & substrate
Leaf litter under mixed hardwood.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
Brittle white gills, a white stipe, a red cap and a white print is the brittlegill presentation, and the print raises the confidence considerably over the red-capped brittlegills recorded elsewhere in the guide without one.
To confirm this identification
Whether the flesh is acrid, and the exact print shade against a scale — cream versus white separates several species groups.
Notes
Spore print taken (card 7), white to cream. The print photographs are among the best in the guide: the gill pattern is reproduced in the print itself.
Found at Coldbrook Rd area, Hubbardston, MA on Friday, 14 August 2026 at 12:23. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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