Milk mushroom (Lactarius resimus) photo and description

Real breast (Lactarius resimus)

• White Silence

• White Silence
• raw breast
• Wet breast
• Pravskiy breast

Real milk (lat. We are a dairy farmer) is a fungus in the genus Lactarius (lat. Lactarius) of the Russulaceae family.

head ∅ 5-20 cm, at first flat-convex, then funnel-shaped with a pubescent edge wrapped inside, dense. The skin is slimy, wet, milky white or slightly yellowish in color with indistinct watery concentric zones, often with adherent particles of soil and litter.

Leg 3-7 cm in height, ∅ 2-5 cm, cylindrical, smooth, white or yellowish, sometimes with yellow spots or pits, hollow.

Pulp brittle, dense, white, with a very characteristic odor reminiscent of fruit. The milky juice is plentiful, caustic, white in color, in the air it becomes sulfur-yellow.

Records in milk mushrooms they are quite frequent, wide, slightly descending along the stem, white with a yellowish tint.

spore powder yellowish color.

In old mushrooms, the leg becomes hollow, the plates turn yellow. The color of the plates can vary from yellowish to cream. There may be brown spots on the hat.

The mushroom is found in deciduous and mixed forests (birch, pine-birch, with linden undergrowth). Distributed in the northern regions of Our Country, in Belarus, in the Upper and Middle Volga regions, in the Urals, in Western Siberia. It occurs infrequently, but abundantly, usually grows in large groups. The optimum average daily fruiting temperature is 8-10°C on the soil surface. Milk mushrooms form mycorrhiza with birch. The season is July – September, in the southern parts of the range (Belarus, the Middle Volga region) August – September.

Violin (Lactarius vellereus)

has a felt hat with non-pubescent edges; it is most often found under beeches.

Peppercorn (Lactarius piperatus)

it has a smooth or slightly velvety cap, the milky juice turns olive green in the air.

Aspen breast (Poplar breast) (Lactarius controversus)

grows in damp aspen and poplar forests.

White volnushka (Lactarius pubescens)

smaller, the cap is less slimy and more fluffy.

White podgruzdok (Russula delica)

easily distinguished by the absence of milky juice.

All these mushrooms are conditionally edible.