Lactarius rugatus (Wrinkled Milkcap)

Lactarius rugatus

Deciduous forests. Summer, autumn.

Medium-sized mushrooms. Cap 6-8 cm across, fleshy, beautifully domed, margins bent downwards, crimped (in old ones), fibrous, yellowish-brownish-tan, brownish-orange, without a red tinge. Gills cream, yellowish-cream, subdecurrent, narrow (up to 2 mm wide); when broken, abundant white milk flows. Stem 5-6x1-2 cm, firm, near the gills at the base tapered, the colour of the cap. Flesh cream, yellowish, not bitter, the smell not strong, with abundant white milk. Characteristic features: very similar to the Weeping Milkcap (L. volemus), differing in its smaller fruiting bodies lacking a red tinge. Grows in small groups under lindens, oaks and maples, among grasses. Warmth-loving. Edible, very rare; it should be entered in the Red Data Book of Lithuania.