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

Lactarius oculatus Mushroom
Ref No: 9162
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown
normal size: Less than 5cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh exudes white or watery latex (milk) when cut, Flesh granular or brittle
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lactarius oculatus (Pk.) Burlingham. Cap 1-3.5cm across, flat with a depression on the disc and a central papilla, eventually becoming shallowly funnel-shaped; dark reddish brown or dark reddish cinnamon around the papilla and similar but paler over the rest of the cap; tacky and shining when fresh, but soon drying. Gills decurrent, close, broad; very pale pinky-cream staining light pinkish cinnamon, becoming duller all over in age. Stem 20-30 x 2-4mm, hollow, sometimes slightly enlarged toward base; dull pinkish cinnamon; naked, moist, watery-fragile. Flesh watery-fragile; similar color to surface. Latex whey-like, unchanging, scanty; young caps stain white paper yellow. Odor slight. Taste very slowly and faintly peppery. Spores ellipsoid,7.5-9.5 x 6-6.5µ; ornamented with a few isolated warts, prominences 0.3-0.6µ, high. Deposit yellowish. Habitat scattered or in groups in sphagnum bogs. Sometimes common. Found in northeastern North America as far south as Georgia. Season August-September. Edibility not known - avoid.

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