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| location: North America |
| edibility: Inedible |
| fungus colour: Brown, Black or blackish, Grey to beige |
| 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 |
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Lactarius subgerardii Smith & Hesler. Cap 1.5-3cm across; pale to dark smoky brown, wrinkles darker; dry, velvety, and with wrinkled surface. Gills adnate-decurrent, subdistant to nearly close; white to cream. Stem 15-30 x 3-4mm; same color as cap; minutely velvety, dry. Flesh thin; whitish. Latex white, unchanging, quickly acrid. Odor not distinctive. Taste acrid. Spores ellipsoid-ovoid, 7-9 x 6-7.5µ; with warts 0.3-0.6µ high, with connectives forming a partial reticulum, or none. Deposit white. Habitat under hemlock. Uncommon. Distribution uncertain; recorded from Tennessee and New Jersey. Season July-September. Edibility not known- avoid. |
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