Yellow Swamp Brittlegill

Russula claroflava

Birch woods, damp pine forests with birch, black alder woods. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, rarely large. Cap 5-12 cm across, convex-flattened, eventually horizontal, slightly depressed or faintly convex; the cuticle peels easily; beautifully yellow, greenish-yellow, chrome yellow. Gills cream, later yellow-ochre, blackening, adnexed. Stem 4-10x0.5-2 cm, white, turning greyish and blackish with age. Flesh white, turning grey and blackish when broken, not bitter. Characteristic features: flesh turns greyish and blackish when cut or broken, not bitter in taste. Grows in groups. Edible, tasty, valuable. Common. Found abundantly in the damper pine forests of the Curonian Spit.