Beech Milk Cap
Description
Cap convex to funnel-shaped, Ø 3-7 cm, with concentrically arranged darker spots, sometimes concentrically zoned or uniform in colour, olive- or greyish green to brown-green, surface slimy when damp.
Gills dense, decurrent, white to whitish or cream-yellow.
Stem 3-10 x 1-2 cm, whitish to pale greyish green, viscid when moist. Flesh white, milk white, turning greyish green when drying.
Taste pungent.
Spore-print colour yellowish.
Occurrence
With beeches in broad-leaved woods and avenues on acid and calcareous soil.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.
Related and/or similar species
Lactarius fluens.