– Cap yellow-white to pinkish white, often with a pink tone towards the margin, with a finely hairy/bearded cap margin.
– Gills emarginate to adnate, whitish, sometimes with a pink tone.
– Stem whitish, often with a pink tone at the top.
– Flesh exudes white latex with a burning acrid taste.
Lactarioid agarics
Bearded Milkcap
Lactarius pubescens
LC
Least concern
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with birch on dry ground in lawns, gardens, parks, roadsides etc., often on calcareous soil.
Similar species
Lactarius torminosus is usually darker pink and has a distinctly zoned cap. The cap margin also has longer hairs/beard. L. scoticus is a similar species that is smaller and grows in fens and on other moist ground with birch.
