Lactarius trivialis    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Tacked Milkcap, Common Milk Cap 

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

synonyms: Lactarius curtus ss.Breitenbach 

edibility : inedible

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

The cap is grey violet to brown. The cap surface is smooth, viscid or sticky.

The flesh is whitish, unchanging; its taste is mild then acrid; the odour is faint, fruity; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a whitish milk, turning slowly yellow when exposed to air.

The gills are pale cream to flesh pink, with greenish shades, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in coniferous or mixed woods, peatland, wet areas, on a rather acid soil, with birch, spruce, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 13 cm (between 4 and 22 cm)
  height of stem approximately 11 cm (between 4 and 18 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 25 mm (between 10 and 50 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Violet then ochre to grey-brown cap, greasy to viscid; pale cream then grey-green (yellow on cloth) milk, very hot; gills with greenish stains; massive stem, soaked with water; in wet places

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



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