Lactarius camphoratus    (Bull.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Curry Milkcap, Curry Scented Milk Cap 

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

edibility : edible

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

The cap is dark orange-brown to orange-red brown, with a central umbo. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is dark red-brown to blackish-brown, without ring.

The flesh is reddish brown, unchanging; its taste is mild, with sometimes bitter aftertaste; the odour is faint, of shield bug then chicory on mature specimens; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick).

The gills are reddish pink to red brownish, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in broad-leaved and coniferous woods, often amongst moss at the base of trees or stumps, on a rather acid soil, with spruce, pine, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 1.5 and 7 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 4 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Red brown cap, often with an umbo and furrowed margin; weak odour of bugs when fresh, turning strong of curry when drying; watery to cloudy-white milk, unchanging, mild to slightly bitter

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



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