Yellowdrop Milkcap

Yellowdrop Milkcap Lactarius chrysorrheus Fr. (illustrated 50% life size) Cap 3–8cm across, convex with a funnel-shaped depression, margin incurved at first then straightening; pale salmon to rosy or ochre-buff with darker rings of watery blotches or narrow concentric bands; smooth, margin hairless. Stem 30–80×9–20mm, cylindrical or with a slightly swollen base; whitish to pale buff, often flushed pinkish below; hollow. Flesh pallid to whitish, becoming sulphur-yellow from the milk. Gills decurrent, crowded; buff, tinged pink. Milk white, abundant, becoming sulphur-yellow in five to fifteen seconds; taste slowly bitterish and somewhat hot. Spores 7–8.5×6–6.5¼, ovate; incomplete network of ridges. Spore print creamy white (A+) with slight salmon tinge. Habitat with oak; summer to autumn. Frequent. Poisonous.