BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Russula aeruginea Fr., 1863 (Green Brittlegill)
| Notes (MWS) | A common green-capped toadstool, mycorrhizal with *Betula* |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
 |
 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Russula aeruginea | Fruitbody | 21 September 2002 | North Hampshire | England | 3 | 5 | |
| Russula aeruginea | Fruitbody | 20 October 2001 | Berks | England | 11 | 5 | |
| Russula aeruginea | Fruitbody | 2 September 1979 | North Hampshire | England | 4 | ||
| Russula aeruginea? | Fruitbody | 20 August 1978 | East Perthshire | Scotland | 1 | ||
| Russula aeruginea | Fruitbody | 31 October 1976 | North Hampshire | England | 3 | 1 | |
| Russula aeruginea | Fruitbody | 18 August 1971 | West Sussex | England | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Cullington, P., 2004 | Those Green Russulas! |
Russula aeruginea may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Russula aeruginea is associated with:
 |
fruitbody | Betula - birches (Betulaceae) | fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root | 
|
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
|
fruitbody | Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) | fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root |
|
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 |
Associated with Russula aeruginea:
Russula aeruginea may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
|
MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
Russula (brittlegill toadstools, russulas) |
References
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
