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| Russula laurocerasi common name "almond-scented Russula" |
Russula laurocerasi smells so sweet and looks so big and edible but tastes like a red hot pepper! I've seen these lots of times before but I did not think I would be able to key them so I never tried. I have more confidence in my ability to key mushrooms now, so I took some home to key yesterday. These came from private property. I used the awesome matchmaker program at http://forestry-dev.org/biodiversity/matchmaker/index_e.html to key these and got it right on the first try. These came up as my number one match. The downloadable program is the one to use. I had trouble with the hard drive file so I downloaded the CD file and then it worked fine. I really love this program!
These have ornamented spore so maybe I will take it into the lab look at the spores. It also sound like this thing has HUGE cystidia, all the more reason to do some microscopy with this specimen.
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