Lactarius hepaticus Plowright |
The cap is chestnut-brown, liver-brown to reddish brown. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white milk, turning yellow in 2 mns. The gills are decurrent to adnate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather acid soil, most of the time with pine, but also with spruce and Douglas pine. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : reddish-brown (chestnut) colour, with greenish shades; white milk turning yellow in 2 minutes; acrid and bitter taste; with conifers Lactarius hepaticus is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking . | ||
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