Lactarius blennius    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Beech Milkcap1, Slimy Milk Cap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Russulales/Russulaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Russulales/Russulaceae  

synonyms: Lactarius blennius-blennius 

edibility : inedible

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photo gallery of  Lactarius blennius potential confusions with  Lactarius blennius toxicity of Lactarius blennius genus Lactarius  

The cap is greenish brown to greenish grey. The cap surface is without concentric bands, viscid or sticky.

The stem is whitish to pale greenish grey, without ring.

The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is acrid; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white milk, turning grey-green when drying.

The gills are white, turning green when touched, adnate to decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in broad-leaved woods, on a rather acid or calcareous soil, most of the time with beech, also with oak.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 12 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 14 mm (between 6 and 25 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Greenish grey-brown cap, sticky to slimy, with darker blotches arranged in concentric bands; white acrid milk, drying to grey-green; gills white then cream, greenish in bruises; with beech

Lactarius blennius is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius blennius in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius blennius in the forest of Rambouillet



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