A medium-sized Russula that has an ochre-yellow cap found growing in small scattered troops or solitary on soil with both coniferous and broadleaf trees.
Common from late Summer till Autumn.
Growing under both broadleaf and coniferous trees.
Initially convex, later flattening and depressed, ochraceous and occasionally with a greenish-tinge, sticky when damp, striate at the margin when mature, the cuticle peeling two-thirds to the cap centre.
Cap flesh thin, white, brittle and granular, stem flesh is fragile, white and stuffed. Odour not distinctive, taste is mild or fairly hot.
Adnexed, cream, narrow and brittle.
More or less equal or tapering slightly towards the apex, white, greying slightly with age, ring absent.
Edible.
