Lactarius scrobiculatus    (Scop.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Spotted Milkcap 

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

edibility : poisonous

potential confusions with  Lactarius scrobiculatus toxicity of Lactarius scrobiculatus genus Lactarius  

The cap is straw yellow to golden yellow, convex then depressed, funnel-shaped. The cap surface is with concentric bands, viscid when damp.

The stem is whitish, stained with ochre red, without ring.

The flesh is pale yellow, turning yellow when exposed to air; its taste is acrid; the odour is fruity; its texture is grainy (breaking like a chalk stick), exuding when cut a white milk, turning yellow when exposed to air.

The gills are cream, decurrent, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows in mixed or coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with spruce, but also sometimes fir.

The fruiting period takes place from June to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 15 cm (between 3 and 30 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 25 mm (between 15 and 40 mm)

Distinctive features : Yellow to orange brown cap with distinctive woolly margin, large-sized; Stem stained with darker crevices; acrid white milk becoming lemon yellow when exposed to air

Lactarius scrobiculatus is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lactarius scrobiculatus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lactarius scrobiculatus in the forest of Rambouillet



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