Lactarius brittanicus Reid.
Buchenmilchling.
Cap 3–8cm across, flattened convex soon shallowly depressed, often with an umbo, apricot to creamy orange often with brownish tones, especially towards the centre, surface smooth or puckered not sticky or velvety. Stem 30–80 x 8–18mm across, cylindrical to spindle-shaped, reddish-brown, darker below. Flesh white to buff, sometimes becoming hollow in stem. Gills decurrent, ochre-buff to pale cinnamon, bruising brownish. Milk white, drying pale yellowish on a handkerchief; taste mild or slightly hot. Spore print cream (D) with slight salmon tinge. Spores more or less globose with a few sparse more or less branched ridges, a fair proportion of the warts isolated, 6–8µ in diameter. Cap surface of a shallow layer or filamentous hyphae, the underlying hyphae with numerous, variously inflated cells. Habitat with beech. Season autumn. Occasional. Edibility unknown -avoid. Found In Europe.