Russula virescens (Schaeff.) Fr.

Pileus light to dark green, whitish-verdigris, towards the margins lighter milky-greenish; 60-120(150) mm in diameter, initially globose, later plane to depressed; surface dull, dry, farinaceous, often cracked into small patches, particularly towards the margin of the cap, cuticule unseparable from cap flesh; margin sharp, later obtuse, in age undulating or radially split, old shortly and thickly striate; flesh in the cap thick, solid.

Stipe whitish; thickset, 20-100 x 20-40 mm, cylindrical or clavate, solid, stuffed at maturity; surface dry, white pruinose in apex.

Spore print pale cream or almost white. Spores broadly ellipsoid, subglobose, with warts not connected or more or less connected, 6-9 x 5-7 µm.

Common. Almost always solitary, summer-fall, in hardwood forests, under beech or oak trees.

Edible and tasty.

Specie very characteristic among other Russulas thanks to its areolate cap surface and its colour. As other greenish cap mushrooms could be mistaken (in persons with some level of ignorance) with muchomor zielonawy (Amanita phalloides).