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Lactarius fuliginosus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Lactaire couleur de fumée, Russfarbener Milchling, Sooty Milkcap, Vörösödőhúsú tejelőgomba
Lactarius fuliginosus Mushroom
Ref No: 9127
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Lactarius fuliginosus2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9128
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown, Black or blackish, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh exudes white or watery latex (milk) when cut, Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Flesh granular or brittle
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lactarius fuliginosus (Fr.) Fr.
Russfarbener Milchling, Vörösödőhúsú tejelőgomba, Lactaire couleur de fumée, Sooty Milkcap.
Cap 4.5–9cm across, flattened convex, later with a depression or shallowly funnel-shaped, dark dull umber, cigar brown or sepia, surface dry, appearing finely velvety, margin incurved at first. Stem 40–100 x 7–20mm, concolorous with cap or paler, surface as on cap. Flesh whitish becoming in places, or spotted with, salmon pink in two to three minutes after exposure; taste mild. Gills shortly decurrent, buffy ochre with a salmon tinge, salmon pink on bruising. Milk white, becoming pinkish but only in contact with the flesh; taste mild, later slightly bitter. Spore print pale ochre (F). Spores subglobose to broadly ovoid, with a fairly well-developed network of ridges up to 1.5µ tall, with finer ones between them, 7.8–9 x 7–8µ. Cap surface of upright, shortly cylindrical cells underlain by a cellular layer. Habitat beech woods. Season summer to autumn. Uncommon. Edible – poor -avoid. Found In Europe.

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