Fungi -- Great Britain -- Identification; Mushrooms -- Identification
Stem: dirty buff or greyish ochre, spotted with green particularly
with age or on handling.
Gills: orange-yellow bruising deep orange but becoming green with
time.
Flesh: pinkish to apricot-coloured but becoming green with age and
exuding a rich orange-red fluid which gradually becomes greyish green.
Frequent in conifer woods and plantations.
~L. glyciosmus~ (Fries) Fries
Coconut-scented milk-cap
_Cap_: width 20-50 mm. _Stem_: length 30-50 mm; width 5-8 mm.
Cap: usually with a central ‘bump’, greyish lilac, dull and minutely
scaly or velvety.
Stem: white to pale yellowish.
Gills: pale yellowish to flesh-coloured then flushed lilaceous.
Flesh: pale yellowish or flushed lilaceous, smelling strongly of
desiccated coconut and exuding a white unchanging milk-like liquid.
In woods and on heaths, particularly where birch is growing.
~L. quietus~ (Fries) Fries
Oak milk-cap
_Cap_: width 30-80 mm. _Stem_: length 40-80 mm; width 10-15 mm.
Cap and stem: milky cocoa-coloured, zoned with reddish brown.
Gills: pale ochraceous then flushed red-brown.
Flesh: similar to gills, smelling strongly of rancid oil, and exuding
a white, thin milk-like liquid which becomes very, very faintly yellow
on exposure to the air.
Common wherever oak is growing.
~L. rufus~ (Fries) Fries
Rufous milk-cap
_Cap_: width 50-90 mm. _Stem_: length 50-90 mm; width 10-15 mm.
Cap: dark red-brown with a distinct, usually sharp ‘bump’ in centre.
Stem: pale red-brown throughout or whitish at base.
Gills: pale reddish brown and exuding a white, unchanging milk-like
fluid.
In pine woods and less frequently with birches on acid heaths.
~L. torminosus~ (Fries) S. F. Gray
Woolly milk-cap
_Cap_: width 40-150 mm. _Stem_: length 60-100 mm; width 15-30 mm.
Cap: pale strawberry-pink or pale salmon colour, distinctly zoned,
slimy when wet at centre and strongly shaggy fibrillose at margin.
Stem and gills: pale strawberry colour.
Flesh: tinged salmon-pink and exuding a white unchangeable milk-like
liquid.
Frequent where birches grow.
~Amanita muscaria~ (Fries) Hooker
Fly agaric
_Cap_: width 100-175 mm. _Stem_: width 30-40 mm; length 150-275 mm.
_Description_:
Cap: bright scarlet to orange-red with scattered whitish or yellowish
fragments of veil particularly towards the centre and hanging down
from the margin, viscid when moist, striate at margin with age.
Stem: white, striate above the soft easily torn, although prominent,
ring which is white above and yellow below; stem-base swollen and
ornamented with patches of yellowish or white veil-fragments which
form concentric rings or ridges of tissue.
Gills: white, free, crowded, fairly thick, minutely toothed at their
edge.
Flesh: soft, lacking distinctive smell, or at times slightly earthy
and white, yellowish below cap-centre.
Spore-print: white.
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