Lactarius vietus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Grey Milkcap 

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

edibility : inedible

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

The cap is grey violet to flesh grey. The cap surface is smooth, viscid when damp.

The stem is whitish, without ring.

The flesh is whitish, unchanging; its taste is acrid; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a whitish milk becoming grey.

The gills are cream slightly pink then light yellow, decurrent to adnate, crowded . The spore print is creamy white with slight salmon tinge (A-B). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in damp places (with peat or sphagnum), on a rather acid soil, only with birch, sometimes mixed with pine.

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 10 mm (between 5 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : gills becoming grey (milk solidifying into grey pearls); in damp places, swamps

Lactarius vietus is infrequent and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius vietus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius vietus in the forest of Rambouillet



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