Yellow Swamp Russula
- cap is up to 10 cm broad, convex, smooth, bright/lemon yellow.
- older specimens have a planar cap with a depressed center with small, radiating furrow-lines at the cap-edges.
- flesh is white, soft, bruising grey.
- gills are yellow and almost free from the stem.
- stem is dry, white, non-tapering, slowly bruising to grey/black.
- grows singly or as several under birch or in mixed woods.
- appears in summer and fall.
- has a mild taste with no odor; cook before eating.
