A medium sized Russula that has a scarlet cap and is found growing solitary or in small troops, specifically under Beech.
Common from Summer till Autumn.
In broadleaf woodland with Beech.
Initially convex, flattened and slightly depressed with age, scarlet or cherry -red in colour and slightly sticky when moist, otherwise smooth and matt, cuticle peels one-third to the cap centre, not striate at the margin.
Cap flesh is white, firm, granular, thick, coloured white beneath the cuticle. Stem fleash full and white. Odour faintly of coconut when young, taste is very hot.
Adnexed, brittle and whitish with a green tinge becoming cream with age.
More or less equal, occasionaly slightly clavate at the base, white, smooth, ring absent.
Poisonous.
