Lactarius pallescens
Lactarius pallescens is a Western North American "milk-cap" mushroom, of which the milk turns violet when the flesh is damaged. The fungi generally identified as L. pallescens are part of a complex of closely related species and varieties which have a peppery taste and are difficult to delimit definitively.[1]
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Species: | L. pallescens |
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Lactarius pallescens Hesler & A.H. Sm. (1979) | |
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gills on hymenium | |
cap is flat or depressed | |
hymenium is subdecurrent | |
stipe is bare | |
spore print is white | |
ecology is mycorrhizal | |
edibility: poisonous |
Distribution
Lactarius pallescens is found on the West Coast of the USA.
Related species
Lactarius uvidus and Lactarius californiensis are similar.
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