Stinking Brittlegill in Eilean Siar: the week ahead

Russula foetens

The map below is built from the measurement network. A 2.5 km grid with a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

Today

Stinking BrittlegillEdible only after thorough cooking
Building

confidence 44%

Flush phase

  1. Quiet
  2. Starting
  3. Building
  4. Peak
  5. Fading

Updated 18 September 2026, 11:37 BST

7 days

Index, day by day

Week's best 65average 63by the weekend steady

The week is flat — no day to pick, conditions are the same throughout.

  1. Today6418 Sept
  2. Sat6519 Sept
  3. Sun6420 Sept
  4. Mon6321 Sept
  5. Tue6322 Sept
  6. Wed6223 Sept
  7. Thu6224 Sept

Map

Where to look: stinking brittlegill

A field over the measurement network. The colour here is for the leading species at each point, not for this one; a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

About the species. British and most western field guides treat this mushroom as inedible. Raw it is acrid and causes stomach upset, and old fruitbodies smell of rancid oil or fish. In Russia, eastern Europe and Scandinavia it is salted, but only after the skin is peeled off and the young unopened buttons are soaked in several changes of water for days and then boiled. Nothing on this page is a recommendation to eat it.

What else is out here now

The other species in this region, by today's index.

Stinking Brittlegill in neighbouring regions

A regional boundary means nothing to a mushroom, and the next region is sometimes closer than the far side of your own. The index is for today.