Lactarius pallidus    (Pers.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Pale Milkcap 

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

edibility : edible if well cooked

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

The cap is pinkish cream. The cap surface is smooth.

The flesh is unchanging; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick).

The gills are adnate to decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on a rather calcareous soil, with beech, oak, hornbeam, birch.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 9 cm (between 4 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 6 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : pinkish-cream to pale brown cap, viscid when damp; milk white, unchanging; stem same colour as cap or paler; gills often stained with red; with deciduous trees

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



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