Milk Cap - Lactarius sect. deliciosi

The caps were mostly flat and ranged in color from orange to to tannish orange. They all appeared bruised with blue/green color on the caps. The stipe and gills also bruised. The gills leaked white and orange latex.

This section of mushrooms is very confusing to identify in the US. This looks like Lactarius deliciosus, but that species doesn't occur in this country. There are subspecies and similar species in this group, but I don't know if an exact ID is possible.

Habitat: I found a large patch (50+) of them growing along a nature trail in a swampy, mixed forest.

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Flown Kimmerling

Lion

This is the one I was going to promote when I got home this afternoon! :D Posted 6 years ago

morpheme

Lion

If it helps, California Fungi (one of my good resources for western species) calls the green staining varieties Lactarius deliciosus (still not exactly accurate.. known to be unrelated to the European mushroom) and treats it as a species complex - with no further breakdown available.
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Lactarius_deliciosus.html Posted 6 years ago, modified 6 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  Interesting, thanks for the link. I wonder if the same applies for the east coast. If so, then maybe I should just ID this as Lactarius deliciosus with a note that it is a complex. Posted 6 years ago

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