Mushrom

Under tamarack, black spruce, white spruce, balsam fir, and quaking aspen in a mesic upland mixed forest. White latex exuded, did not change color, bruised flesh did not change color. Spore print yellowish.

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erinmoore

Grizzly Bear

A milk cap mushroom. White latex shows that this is something other than Lactarius sanguifluus, hence the sp. epithet. But note the attached gills, unadorned stem, gills and stem that looks as if they might break like chalk, and latex, as you observed. Latex possibly quite peppery and if so not edible. In color it looks close to something like L. strobiculatus. Posted 4 years ago

Gary B

Lion

I'm not so sure this one is Lactarius sanguifluus as the latex did not change color (started white and stayed white) and also because the species is unknown from North America. It is probably a Lactarius but that is about it. The taste is almost undetectable (slight tingling sensation). Posted 4 years ago

The Lactarius sp.

''Lactarius sanguifluus'', commonly known as the bloody milk cap, is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. First described from France in 1811, the species was given its current name by Elias Fries in 1838 when he transferred it to ''Lactarius''. Found in Asia, Mediterranean Africa, and Europe, fruit bodies grow scattered or in groups on the ground under conifers, especially Douglas fir. When bruised or cut, the fruit bodies ooze a blood-red to purple latex that slowly turns greenish upon.. more

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Similar species: Russulales

Species identified by erinmoore