Purple-Staining Milk Cap
From the latest record: 2026-09-19.
Gills fairly crowded; whitish to pale cream when young, becoming pale buff with age
Convex when young, later flat to shallowly depressed; smooth, viscid to slimy when fresh; pale violet-grey, lilac-grey to buff-brown, darkening with age; unzoned or faintly zoned
Adnate to shortly decurrent
Cylindrical, pale cream to whitish, smooth, sometimes slightly viscid when young; becoming hollow with age; ring absent
Spore print pale cream to pale yellowish
Mycorrhizal mainly with birch and willow; damp woodland, bog margins and mossy acidic soils; solitary to gregariously; summer to autumn
Not recommended; bitter, regarded as potentially poisonous
Fruit body small to medium; stipe ~3–7 cm long and ~0.6–2.5 cm thick
Cap ∅ ~3–10 cm
Whitish to buff, firm and brittle; white latex and exposed flesh slowly stain lilac
KOH green on cap surface
Faintly fruity, indistinct
Mild initially to bitter
Spores subglobose to broadly ellipsoid, ~7.5–11 × 6.5–8.5 µm, ornamented with amyloid broad ridges ~0.5–1 µm high forming an incomplete reticulum; pleuro- and cheilomacrocystidia fusiform to subventricose; pileipellis an ixocutis
Slimy lilac-grey milkcap with white latex staining intensely violet-purple
1838). Epicr. Syst. Mycol. (Upsaliae): 338 (’1836-1838′).
Nedrema LKA, Pärnu county, Eesti
Wooded meadow nature reserve, under oak, birch, aspen trees, in damp grassy soil with decaying leaves remains
58°32'18.2"N 24°04'20.1"E
🌡️ 17°C 🌥️ Mostly cloudy 💨 Wind 220° SW->NE, 28 km/h
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