Lactarius controversus

blushing milkcap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-08-25.

Gills, white to pale cream, crowded, adnate to slightly decurrent

Convex when young, becoming flat or slightly depressed with age, surface is white to pale pinkish, often with concentric zones, sticky when wet

Adnate to slightly decurrent

Stout, cylindrical, and tapers slightly at the base, white to pale cream, slightly rough surface

Spore print creamy white

Mycorrhizal with poplars, willows, and birches, grows in moist, grassy wooded meadow areas, often in large groups

Not favored due to its acrid taste, can be consumed after parboiling and soaking to remove bitterness

Fruit body 8–20 cm

Cap 8–20 cm

Odour faintly fruity, slightly unpleasant

Spores are broadly elliptical to subglobose, 8–10 x 6–8 µm, reticulate surface, basidia four-spored

Robust mushroom characterized by pinkish cap and its crowded cream gills

1800). Observ. Mycol. (Lipsiae) 2: 39 (’1799′).

Nedrema looduskaitseala, Pärnumaa, Estonia

Wooded meadow, aspen-willow-birch trees, in grass, calcareous soil

58°32'20.6"N 24°04'17.1"E

🔆 Sunny weather, partial overcast, semi-shade