Lactarius chrysorrheus    Fr. 

common name(s) : Yellowdrop Milkcap, Yellow Milk Cap 

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

synonyms: Lactarius theiogalus ss.Gray 

edibility : discard

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

The cap is orange to pink. The cap surface is with concentric bands, viscid in wet weather.

The stem is white, without ring.

The flesh is white, yellowing when exposed to air; its taste is acrid; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white milk, turning yellow when exposed to air.

The gills are cream to salmon pink, decurrent, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 34 ). The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in deciduous or mixed woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with oak, but also with other deciduous trees, chestnut, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2.5 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 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Flesh or salmon pink to ochre buff cap, with concentric orange blotches; white and abundant milk, turning bright sulphur yellow very quickly (10s); under oaks

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



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