Lactarius fuliginosus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Sooty Milkcap 

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

edibility : inedible

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

The cap is white to grey-brown, convex then expanded to depressed; its margin is incurved a log time, smooth. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white or washed with brown, without ring.

The flesh is white, turning pink or red when exposed to air; its taste is acrid or bitter; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white milk, unchanging when isolated, turning pink on the flesh.

The gills are cream then ochre to salmon brown, adnate to decurrent, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 38 ). The spore print is pallid ochraceous (F). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in damp broad-leaved woods, on a rather clayey-calcareous soil, with oak, beech, chestnut, hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 12 mm (between 6 and 20 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : brown, velvety cap, with discoloured stains; flesh turning pink when exposed to air; white milk, acrid; ochre to salmon gills; stem washed with brown

Lactarius fuliginosus is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius fuliginosus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius fuliginosus in the forest of Rambouillet



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