Russula corallina

Delafield, Violetta White (botanist, mycologist, and garden designer, 1875-1949)

Culture: American

Botany; Mycology; Fungi; Mushrooms

Watercolor drawing of two differing size fungi in shades of red and pink, pencil inscription on right side of paper; Larger fungus is approximately 3. 5 inches from root to top of cap; cap is approximately 5 inches wide at largest point; pink cap is flat; sunken in at center; gills are visible; cream color with very wide delineations indicating very large gills; stem is mostly cream, shaded with grey and pink; stem curves to the left; grey indicated earth; small mushroom, an immature specimen; has a convex round cap in shades of pink; mushroom is approximately 1.5 inches high from top of cap to root; and cap is approximately 1.5 inches in width at widest point. Cap is darker red at top; become a paler pink towards bottom; stem is cream shaded in gray, some pink visible in stem; grey lines under stem indicate ground; Pencil inscription reads "

1. Pileus fleshy, convex, becoming plane / or somewhat depressed in the center / more on the disc / surface- rosy- carmine, with a bloom / not viscid when moist glabrous- / pelicle [sic] only partly separable, margin / free [sic] , + breaking showing whiter [sic] flesh / below- flesh white tinged with pink / under the pelicle [sic], taste strong, acrid- / 2. Lamellae white at first becoming / cream colored, all even, rather wide / adnate or slightly sinuate some / anastomosing, or branching once. / 3. Spores White / 4. Stipe white equal- slightly / tinged with pink, firm & solid smooth. / Growing near deciduous trees in / groups.- / Annandale, N. Y. Aug 14, 1926. / Seen last year also. / Russula corallina

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Repository: Bard College, Montgomery Place

August 14, 1926

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Gift of J. Dennis Delafield

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Paper, watercolor, pencil

8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (22.23 x 29.85 cm)

Botanical drawing

Image Number: MP.2005.136