Downy Milkcap

Lactarius pubescens

Deciduous forests, especially boggy, grassy birch woods. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-7 (8) cm across, white, yellowish when old, fibrous, the margins especially shaggy. Gills white, later cream, crowded, adnate, subdecurrent. Stem 2-4x0.5—1.5 cm, tapering towards the base, white. Characteristic features: cap margins shaggy, flesh white, burning in taste, the milk is white and does not change colour; likes wet, boggy, grassy places. Edible. Common. Very similar to a faded Woolly Milkcap.