Lactarius controversus Pers., (blushing milkcap)


20 Sep 2005 at OSGR: SU76 in North Hants, England

Record SummaryGroup of specimens in dry weather, along sides of causeway beside lake, under Grey Sallow, Oak nearby
Found asFruitbody
Date20 September 2005
Associated organismSalix cinerea
OS grid refOSGR: SU76
Lat/Lon51° 20’ N, 0° 60’ W
Vice CountyNorth Hants, VC no: 12
CountryEngland
Voucher20 Sep 2005[B]
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Notes:

Milk: sparing; white; mild, very slowly slightly hot; unchanging, unchanged by KOH.

Flesh: mild, then slowly very hot.

Caps: 9cm diam, up to 21 cm in old fruitbodies; wrinkled towards margin when young.

Stipe flesh after 3 hours: "sulphur yellow" in base and pale "vinaceous grey" in centre.

Spore print: "B".

Spores: 6-7/5µm, with round-topped warts up to c.0.3µm high, connected by heavy ridges to from an almost complete reticulum, plage not staining in Melzer’s.

Cap cuticle: narrow (4-5µm diam), repent, thin-walled, hyaline, cylindric to flexuose, filamentous hyphae.

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