Welcome to the summary page for FabulousFusionFood's Wild Food guide to Yellow Swamp Brittlegill along with all the Yellow Swamp Brittlegill containing recipes presented on this site, with 11 recipes in total.

These recipes, all contain Yellow Swamp Brittlegill as a major wild food ingredient.

Yellow Swamp Brittlegill, Russula claroflava (also known as Yellow Russula, Yellow Swamp Russula) is a choice edible species of basidomycete fungus and is a member of the Russulaceae (brittlegill) family of mushrooms with an ochre spore print. It is widespread in Europe and North America and grows in slightly acidic, but nutrient-rich soil. Like all Russulas, it is a mycorrhizal fungus. It is found most commonly in damp beech and aspen woodland.

The cap is 4–12cm in diameter, convex flattening out with a depression in the centre. Bright egg yellow and usually shiny. Sticky to the touch. The gills are white and attached to the stem. Crowded. Bruising grey. Brittle to the touch. The stem is white, 5#x2013;8 long and not tapering with no skirt. Should snap like a piece of chalk. The flesh is white, bruising to grey.

This is an excellent eating mushroom and is amonges the nuttiest of the brittlegills with a slight heat to it.

Possible confusion: The Ochre Brittlegill (Russula ochroleuca), but this is edible, if a bit acrid, and has a duller yellow cap.

The Geranium Brittlegill (Russula fellea), is dirtier yellow with a smell of geraniums and is very hot when placed on the tongue.

For other edible mushrooms, see the guide to edible mushrooms

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