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Lactarius hepaticus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Kései tejelõgomba, Liver Milkcap, Später Milchling
Lactarius hepaticus 2 Mushroom
Ref No: 9138
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Red or redish or pink, Brown, Grey to beige
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh exudes white or watery latex (milk) when cut, Flesh granular or brittle
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lactarius hepaticus Plowright apud Boud. Später Milchling, Kései tejelõgomba, Liver Milkcap. Cap 2.5–7cm across, convex, late flattened, sometimes with a central pimple, liver coloured to dull chestnut, surface dry and matt, margin often crimped or crisped with tiny lobes. Stem 30–70 x 4–8mm, reddish brown to brick-coloured. Flesh white tinged pinkish-buff, thin in cap stem becoming hollow. Gills slightly decurrent, pale buff, later deep buff to pale ochre with a mauvy bloom. Milk white, drying yellowish, a drop on a handkerchief turns sulphur yellow in one to two minutes; taste bitter and acrid, slowly slightly hot. Spore print cream (B). Spores broadly elliptic, with large warts, some isolated but mostly joined by thin to thickish ridges in a very incomplete network, 8–9 x 6–7µ. Habitat under pine. Season autumn. Common under pines in Southern Britain becoming rarer northwards. Not edible. Found In Europe and in northern North America.

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laurens van der linde (Netherlands) - 08 December 2010

hello i found this one in the dunes greeting lou
Lactarius hepaticus 2
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