Lactarius fuliginosus (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is white to grey-brown, convex then expanded to depressed; its margin is incurved a log time, smooth. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The stem is white or washed with brown, without ring. The flesh is white, turning pink or red when exposed to air; its taste is acrid or bitter; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white milk, unchanging when isolated, turning pink on the flesh. The gills are cream then ochre to salmon brown, adnate to decurrent, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 38 ). The spore print is pallid ochraceous (F). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in damp broad-leaved woods, on a rather clayey-calcareous soil, with oak, beech, chestnut, hornbeam. The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : brown, velvety cap, with discoloured stains; flesh turning pink when exposed to air; white milk, acrid; ochre to salmon gills; stem washed with brown Lactarius fuliginosus is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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