- Cap orange to salmon-pink, usually zoned, strongly green-spotted with age.
- Gills adnate to decurrent, orange to salmon-coloured.
- Stem orange with a salmon-pink tinge.
- Flesh exudes a carrot-coloured latex that turns wine-red after 5-10 minutes.
Lactarioid agarics
Semi-blood Milkcap
Lactarius semisanguifluus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine on calcareous soil. Mainly on Gotland and Öland, with occasional records on the mainland.
Notes
Lactarius semisanguifluus is edible but so rare that it is seldom noted as an edible mushroom.
Similar species
All milkcaps that bleed a carrot-coloured or wine-coloured latex are edible and good saffron milkcaps.
