New Zealand Fungi and Lichens

DCS_6229 Beech chalkcap (Russula tawai) Russula caps are often depressed at maturity and the white gills - which discolour with age - are attached to the stem. Russula caps and stems characteristically snap like chalk, hence the name chalkcap. Found on forest floor beneath red and silver beech. Waikaia Forest *

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