Lactarius pubescens

downy milk cap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-09-12.

Gills crowded, narrow, and cream to pale pinkish-buff in color, staining brownish with age or when bruised

convex when young, becoming flattened to slightly depressed with age, with an inrolled margin, surface is pubescent, cream to pale pinkish in color

Decurrent

cylindrical, hollow with age, concolorous with the cap or slightly paler, surface is dry and downy, with a faint pinkish hue

Spore print cream to pale yellow

Mycorrhizal with birch, in damp areas, in mixed forests, in the vicinity of bogs and wet meadows, in groups or scattered, late summer to autumn

Edible as salted pickles, of low culinary value

Fruit body stipe 3–6 cm long, 1–2 cm thick

Cap 4–10 cm wide

Odour mild, faintly fruity

Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, 7–9 x 6–8 µm, finely ornamented surface with low warts connected by thin ridges, basidia 4-spored

Distinctive species of milkcap mushroom found in damp areas, primarily under birch trees

1838). Epicr. Syst. Mycol. (Upsaliae): 335 (’1836-1838′).

Väike-Rõsna, Võrumaa, Estonia

Mixed forest (pine-birch), on damp ground, near the road

57°59'08.4"N 27°37'20.0"E

🔆 Mild overcast, forest shade