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Russula fellea (Geranium Brittlegill)

Synonyms: Agaricus felleus

Wikipedia Abstract

The mushroom Russula fellea goes by the common name of the geranium-scented Russula, or bitter Russule and is a member of the Russula genus, all of which are commonly known as brittlegills. It is straw or honey coloured and in Britain grows in beech woods during autumn. It is inedible.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Borrowdale Woodland Complex 1650 England, United Kingdom
Ebernoe Common 581 England, United Kingdom
North Pennine Moors 254789 England, United Kingdom
North York Moors 108930 England, United Kingdom
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom

Ecosystems

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Fagus sylvatica (European beech)[1]

Consumers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Fagus sylvatica (European beech)[2]
Quercus robur (Pedunculate Oak)[2]
Parasitized by 
Asterophora parasitica (Silky Piggyback)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Host preferences and differential contributions of deciduous tree species shape mycorrhizal species richness in a mixed Central European forest, Christa Lang & Jasmin Seven & Andrea Polle, Mycorrhiza, Springer, 14 September 2010
♦ 2Ecology of Commanster
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0