A medium to large Russula that has a variable cap, being violet to buff in colour, growing in scattered groups or solitary, on soil under broadleaf trees.
Frequent form Summer till Autumn.
Grows on soil under broadleaf trees.
Initially convex then flattened-convex, later slightly depressed, smooth, violaceous to buff in colour , generally pallid, often with a greenish tinge, cutucle peels halfway to the cap centre, retracting from the margin.
Cap flesh is white, firm and medium. Stem flesh is firm, brittle, white and stuffed. Odour not distinctive. Taste mild and nutty.
Adnexed, narrow, crowded, pale cream and forked close to the stem, interveined.
More or less equal, smooth, whitish, occasionally with violaceous tinges, ring absent.
Flesh turns rapidly a deep salmon-pink with FeSO4.
