Pink Gomphide

The pink gomphide is a Champignon Basidiomycète of the family of the Gomphidiacée S.

Description

Hat 3 to 5 cm, convex then flattened, even slightly depressed, red-pink staining itself of black, viscous.
Blades spaced, white, staining of black to the edge by the sporée brown dark.
Foot 2 to 4 cm, pale pink, tightened in top, presenting a ring or traces it of a ring and connected to the margin of the hat by a Cortine at the young specimens.
Flesh thick in the center, white, dew under the cuticule, without particular odor nor savor .

Habitat

The rosy gomphide comes from the summer to the autumn on acid grounds, generally under conifers and is always associated with the Bolet of the herdsmen ( Suillus bovinus ). It is about a unilateral dependence, the boletus of the herdsmen frequently appearing without the gomphide.

Edibility

Like all the gomphides, the pink gomphide is edible, without much interest.

Close species

Gomphidius maculatus
Gomphidius gracilis

Possible confusions

By far, one can take the pink gomphide for small a Russule, group emetica for example. Of near, it resembles only itself and the presence of suillus bovinus makes it possible to confirm the identification.

Sources

Mushrooms, Roger Philips, Solar editions, ISBN 2-263-00640-0
Mushrooms of North and the South, Andre Marchand, volume III/IX, Hatchet, ISBN 84-499-0649-0

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