Bearded Milkcap
A fairly easy to identify family of mushrooms with lactating gills and flesh.
Mushroom Type | |
Common Names | Bearded Milkcap (EN), Cap Llaeth Barfog (CY), Mleczaj Omszony (PL), Fehéres Szőrgomba (HU) |
Scientific Name | Lactarius pubescens |
Season Start | Aug |
Season End | Nov |
Average Mushroom height (CM) | 7 |
Average Cap width (CM) | 10 |
Please note that each and every mushroom you come across may vary in appearance to these photos.
Cap
Convex becoming depressed in the middle and having ‘woolly’ in-turned edges. White pale salmon/yellow in just about visible concentric rings.
Milk
The gills exude milk which is white and hot to the taste and unchanging in colour.
Possible Confusion
The Woolly Milkcap (Lactarius torminosus), is similar but darker and has a more salmon to red colour, pictured.
Spore Print
Pale cream/ivory. Ellipsoid with fine warts.
Taste / Smell
Hot and acrid.
Frequency
Uncommon.
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