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.
Spores 1000x in Melzers
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