Lactarius glyciosmus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

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

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

synonyms: Lactarius mammosus ss.Quél. 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Lactarius glycyosmus, Lactarius impolitus)  

edibility : discard

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

The cap is pale grey to flesh pink, with a central umbo. The cap surface is without concentric bands, slightly viscid in wet weather.

The stem is white then straw, without ring.

The flesh is white then pink cream, unchanging; its taste is mild to bitter; the odour is quite strong, of coconut; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white, unchanging milk.

The gills are cream then pinkish, decurrent, crowded . 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 birch, sometimes with alder or willow.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  height of stem approximately 4 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 7 mm (between 3 and 12 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Pale grey to pinkish cap; smell of coconut; white or transparent milk, not abundant, unchanging, mild to acrid; under birch

Lactarius glyciosmus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius glyciosmus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius glyciosmus in the forest of Rambouillet



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