{"id":1140,"date":"2018-07-21T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2018-07-21T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T12:42:11","slug":"purple-bloom-russula-russula-mariae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Purple-bloom Russula <em>(Russula mariae)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1141\" style=\"width: 970px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Purple-bloom_Russula_01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1141\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Purple-bloom_Russula_01.jpg\" alt=\"Purple-bloom Russula\" width=\"960\" height=\"719\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Purple-bloom_Russula_01.jpg 960w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Purple-bloom_Russula_01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Purple-bloom_Russula_01-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Purple-bloom_Russula_01-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Kirk Nelson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Purple-bloom Russula <em>(Russula mariae)<\/em> is a medium-sized gill mushroom. It is common and widespread in deciduous and mixed woodlands and forests of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. It is found from June through October, singly or in groups, on the ground near hardwoods. It obtains its nutrients from the rootlets of oak and other hardwood trees.<\/p>\n<p>Purple-bloom Russula is easily recognized by the flat, dry, velvety or powdery, purple cap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Purple-bloom_Russula.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Fungi\/Purple-bloom_Russula.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=1140\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple-bloom Russula (Russula mariae) is a medium-sized gill mushroom. It is common and widespread in deciduous and mixed woodlands and forests of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. It is found from June through October, singly or in groups, on the ground near hardwoods. It obtains its nutrients from the rootlets of oak and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[461,462],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}