– Cap expanded to slightly funnel-shaped, dry and felt-like, yellow-brown to grey-brown.
– Gills cream-white, becoming ochre-yellow with age.
– Stem roughly the same colour as the cap or paler.
– Flesh pale, when young exuding watery clear latex from fresh injuries.
– Smells spicy, like liquorice or bouillon cube.
Lactarioid agarics
Fenugreek Milkcap
Lactarius helvus
LC
Least concern
Poisonous
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows in spruce and pine forest, often on moist ground with Sphagnum, but also on rocky ground among reindeer lichen in pine forest. Common throughout the Nordic countries.
Notes
Reported to be mildly poisonous and laxative.
Similar species
Lactarius helvus is the only milkcap in the Nordic countries that exudes watery clear latex. When the fruitbody becomes older, or if the weather has been dry, no liquid at all is released when the flesh is broken.
