Green-cracking russula
Russula virescens · 青头菌
Rare红菇科🍽 Reported Edible (Wild)
Reference sources describe this as an edible wild fungus. This guide provides no basis whatsoever for foraging or consumption.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap grayish green, surface cracking into patches
- Gills white; stem white, stout, and brittle
- Grows on the floor of hardwood forests, no ring or volva
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 红菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 5–15 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Rare
- Habitat
- Oak woodland
Easily Confused With
Death capGreen-cracking russula has no ring or volva, and its brittle stem snaps cleanly.
Charcoal burnerCap color variable, often a mix of purple, green, and blue-grayFun Fact
The cap skin cracks into patches of green, like a dried-up riverbed — but deadly green Amanitas exist too, so color alone is never proof.
More in this family
- Blackening brittlegill
- Hatsudake
- Indigo milk cap
- Japanese russula
- Rank russula
- Saffron milk cap
- The sickener
- Woolly milkcap