Lactarius uvidus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Shiner 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Russulaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Russulales/Russulaceae  

synonyms: Lactarius lividorubescens 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Lactarius uvidus
photo gallery of Lactarius uvidus potential confusions with Lactarius uvidus toxicity of Lactarius uvidus genus Lactarius  

The cap is greyish, brown more or less lilaceous. The cap surface is smooth.

The stem is whitish stained with ochre, without ring.

The flesh is white, turning slowly lilac-purple when exposed to air (30mns); its taste is mild then bitter; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a whitish milk, becoming purple when exposed to air.

The gills are whitish stained with ochre or purple, decurrent to adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in damp areas of coniferous or broad-leaved woods, on a rather acid soil, with birch, willow, spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 13 mm (between 5 and 25 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : greasy to viscid, violet-grey to buff cap; milk and flesh white, becoming lilac when exposed to air; in damp places

Lactarius uvidus is infrequent and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius uvidus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius uvidus in the forest of Rambouillet



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