Russula cyanoxantha. Photo credit: Jan Borovicka.
Russula cyanoxantha is a very common fungus in moderately acidic soils of deciduous and coniferous forests of Europe and Asia (Větrovský et al., 2020). Russula cyanoxantha is ectomycorrhizal with beech, but also a variety of other trees including hornbeam, oak and spruce. The fungus forms fruitbodies from May till October. It is found typically in places with elevated N deposition (van der Linde et al. 2018). The sporocarp for this genome were collected in a mountainous coniferous forest in the Bavarian Forest, Germany, Central Europe with dominant Fagus sylvatica.
References:
- Van der Linde S et al. 2018. Environment and host as large-scale controls of ectomycorrhizal fungi. Nature 558: 243-248.
- Větrovský T et al. 2020. GlobalFungi, a global database of fungal occurrences from high-throughput-sequencing metabarcoding studies. Scientific Data 7: 228.
