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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Yellow, Red or redish or pink, 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 granular or brittle, Mushroom slimy or sticky |
| spore colour: White, cream or yellowish |
| habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground |
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Lactarius affinis Pk.
Cap 8-10cm across, convex with a depressed disc; pale ochre to yellow to pinkish cinnamon; smooth and sticky. Gills decurrent or nearly adnate, quite broad; whitish tinged with yellow. Stem 25-80 x 1424mm, stuffed then hollow; same color as cap; smooth. Flesh firm to soft; white. Latex milk-white, unchanging, not staining. Taste acrid. Spores ellipsoid, amyloid, 8-10 x 7.1-7.7µ; ornamented with a partial or broken reticulum, prominences 0.5-1p, high. Deposit white. Habitat scattered or in groups in pastures or mixed woods and under conifers. Widely distributed in northeastern North America. Season July-October. Not edible |
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