Species
Russula queletii (Fruity brittlegill)
Russula queletii. Photo: (c) Marco Floriani, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Russula queletii otherwise known as the gooseberry russula, is a common, inedible, Russula mushroom found growing in groups, predominantly in spruce forest. Eating this mushroom causes abdominal pains.
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Order: Russulales
- Family: Russulaceae (Milkcaps, brittlegills and allies)
- Genus: Russula (Brittlegills)
- Subgenus: Russula
- Subsection: Sardoninae
- Species: Russula queletii (Fruity brittlegill)
- Subsection: Sardoninae
- Subgenus: Russula
- Genus: Russula (Brittlegills)
- Family: Russulaceae (Milkcaps, brittlegills and allies)
- Order: Russulales
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
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