Lactarius subdulcis    (Pers.:Fr.) Gray 

common name(s) : Mild Milkcap, Beech Milkcap2 

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

edibility : inedible

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

The cap is brown-pink to red-brown. The cap surface is with concentric bands, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is pale brownish pink, without ring.

The flesh is whitish to pale red-orange, unchanging; its taste is mild then bitter; the odour is faint, of shield bug or rubber; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white, unchanging milk.

The gills are whitish then flesh pink, adnate to decurrent, crowded (nb of gills per 90° ~ 24 ). The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in broad-leaved woods, most of the time with beech, but also with hornbeam.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 7 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 3 and 15 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : white watery and stable milk; pale gills; taste pleasant then bitter; cap with circular bands; odour (and looks) of rubber, sometimes also odour of metal; with beech

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



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