Lactarius quietus (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. |
The cap is reddish brown. The cap surface is with faint concentric bands, slightly viscid in wet weather. The stem is red brown, without ring. The flesh is white with a tinge of red-orange, unchanging; its taste is mild then acrid; the odour is unpleasant, of shield bugs or oily; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a yellow-white, unchanging milk. The gills are cream - flesh pink then reddish, adnate to decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in broad-leaved woods, parks or gardens, on a rather acid soil, with oak only. The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : odour of woodlice or wet clothes; matt cap, with a frosty glaze and often undistinctive concentric bands; milk almost unchanging creamy white, with a mild or slightly bitter taste Lactarius quietus is frequent and very widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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