Boston Mycological Club
The name refers to the short stem on the Russula. The cap is white and funnel-shaped. Usually a somewhat large mushroom, it can be seen pushing up the forest duff as the cap lifts. The gills are relatively narrow and close spaced. The faint blue-green tint to the gills and often a blue-green color around the stem just where it meets the gills is the looked for trait of this mushroom. This can easily look like a Lactarius, but there is no latex when cut.
Bessette - Mushrooms of Northeastern North
America; page 244
Lincoff - Audubon Field Guide to North American
Mushrooms; page 698
Barron - Mushrooms of Northeast North America;
page 310
Kibby - Mushrooms and Other Fungi; page 36
Phillips - Mushrooms of North America; page
109
Arora - Mushrooms Demystified; page 87
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| Collected 2001-07-22; Stow, MA; Woodhead Farm. |