Lactarius chrysorrheus Fr.
Goldflüssiger Milchling, Lactaire à lait jaune, Yellowdrop Milkcap.
Cap 3–8cm across, convex with a funnel-shaped depression, pale salmon to rosy or ochre-buff with darker rings of watery blotches or narrow concentric bands, smooth, margin hairless, incurved at first then straightening. Stem 30–80 x 9–20mm, cylindrical or with a slightly swollen base, whitish to pale buff, often flushed pinkish below. Flesh pallid to whitish becoming sulphur yellow from the milk, stem hollow. Gills decurrent, crowded, buff tinged pink. Milk white, abundant, becoming sulphur yellow in five to fifteen seconds; taste slowly bitterish and somewhat hot. Spore print creamy white (A+) with slight salmon tinge. Spores oval with an incomplete network of ridges, 7–8.5 x 6–6.5µ. Habitat with oak in Europe, in groups in hardwood and mixed forests and under conifers in North America. Season summer to autumn. Occasional Europe. Widely distributed throughout North America. Poisonous. Distribution, America and Europe.