Stinking Brittlegill in Scottish Borders: 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.
51Fair
Flush phase
- Quiet
- Starting
- Building
- Peak
- Fading
Updated 18 September 2026, 11:37 BST
7 days
Index, day by day
Week's best 51average 49by the weekend steady
The week is flat — no day to pick, conditions are the same throughout.
- Today5118 Sept
- Sat5119 Sept
- Sun5020 Sept
- Mon4821 Sept
- Tue4822 Sept
- Wed4823 Sept
- Thu4824 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.