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

synonyms: Wässrigermilchling, Watery Milkcap
Lactarius cimicarius Mushroom
Ref No: 9052
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown, 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, Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Flesh granular or brittle
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lactarius cimicarius (Batsch. ex Secr.) Gillet. Wässrigermilchling, Watery Milkcap.
Cap 3–7cm across, flattened convex with saucer- or narrow funnel-shaped centre, sometimes with a low umbo, umber or chestnut sometimes a little paler towards the margin, surface dry, matt, wrinkled and often granular or lumpy, margin remaining incurved for some time, usually more or less furrowed. Stem 20–65 x 7–12mm, concolorous with cap or more usually more reddish brown, or paler. Flesh cinnamon-buff, thin in cap, stem hollow. Gills moderately decurrent, saffron to bricky or orangy cinnamon. Milk watery with a few white clouds; taste mild. Smell of bugs, oily. Spore print creamy (C) with a slight salmon tinge. Spores covered with warts up to 1.3µ high, joined by usually strong almost wing-like ridges to form a more or less complete network, 6.5–9 x 6–8µ. Cap surface cellular; gill margin with globose, ballon or club-shaped cells. Habitat under oak and beech. Season summer to autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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