- Cap dull yellow-orange to pale clay-coloured, unzoned or weakly zoned in grey tones, sometimes green-spotted.
- Gills adnate to slightly decurrent, pale reddish-grey.
- Stem with irregular scrobiculate spots.
- Flesh exudes a wine-red latex in fresh injuries.
Lactarioid agarics
Bloody Milkcap
Lactarius sanguifluus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine on calcareous soil in southern Sweden, mainly on Gotland.
Notes
A good edible mushroom that works well in soups, sauces and stews.
Similar species
All saffron milkcaps exude a carrot-coloured to wine-red latex in fresh injuries and are good edible mushrooms. Lactarius sanguifluus is the only saffron milkcap that exudes a wine-red latex immediately after the flesh is broken.
