Woolly Milkcap - Lactarius torminosus
Large fleshy milkcap, associated with Birch. Usually zonate cap, pale salmony pink in colour, convex with a strongly inrolled margin and becoming flattened and depressed at the centre. It has a felty-hairy surface and a strongly bearded margin. Mlk white, unchanging and very acrid
The Bearded Milkcap, Lactarius pubescens is paler and creamy-coloured, and is not zonate.
Woodlands, always with birch.
August to November.
Widespread but never really common in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Melinda Bell
Moira, Moira Junction
26 October 2021
4 cm diameter
Melinda Bell
Moira, Moira Junction
26 October 2021
Melinda Bell
Bardon Hill
28 September 2022
Lostash
Winchester Avenue In Estate Path
20 November 2011
Frank Bedford
Ashby de la Zouch, Hicks Lodge
30 October 2020
Frank Bedford
Ashby de la Zouch, Hicks Lodge
30 October 2020
Frank Bedford
Ashby de la Zouch, Hicks Lodge
30 October 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Woolly Milkcap
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Russulales
- Family:
- Russulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 20/11/2011 (Watson, Ashley)
- Last record:
- 28/10/2023 (Bedford, Frank)
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