Coconut Milkcap - Lactarius glyciosmus

A small milkcap, convex with an inrolled margin when young, becoming flatter or shallowly depressed later.  It may be finely hairy, or (at maturity) very finely scaly; usually pinkish buff but occasionally somewhat darker and browner and sometimes with vague concentric zones.  Milk white, unchanging, mild tasting.  It smells like the desiccated coconut used in confectionery.  

L mammosus is darker brown, larger, and under birch or pine, but also smell of coconut; we are not aware of any records in VC55

smell

Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe.  Note cap texture, smell, colour and taste of milk, and whether colour of milk changes on exposure to air (this may take some time).   You must note the tree species under which it was found.

Woodland or grassland, near birch.

Late summer to autumn.

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.