Lactarius evosmus    Kühner & Romagnesi 

common name(s) : Fruity Milkcap 

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

synonyms: Lactarius zonarius ss.Korhonen 

edibility : unknown edibility

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

The cap is ochre cream, convex then depressed, funnel-shaped. The cap surface is viscid when young, then dry.

The stem is white cream to ochre, without blotches.

The flesh is whitish, unchanging; its taste is very acrid; the odour is fruity, of apples or geranium; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white, unchanging milk.

The gills are whitish to pale buff, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is pale ochre (E-F). This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) woods, on a rather clayey-calcareous soil, with oak, but also with poplar and willow.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 3.5 and 15 cm)
  height of stem approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 5 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 10 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : ochre-cream cap, arranged in concentric bands; flesh and milk white, unchanging; milk with very hot taste; stem without blotches; rather strong odour of fruit or geranium

Lactarius evosmus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius evosmus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius evosmus in the forest of Rambouillet



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