Blushing Milkcap - Lactarius controversus

A very large pale, short-stemmed milkcap associated with sallows and poplars.  Milk white, unchanging, unpleasantly acrid tasting.  Cap slimy when fresh, whitish, with faint pinkish zones, especially near the margin.  Mature caps are flat with a central depression, or shallowly funnel-shaped, and inrolled margin.  Gills are pinkish and crowded; sometimes forking near the stem.

There are other pale-coloured sticky/slimy milkcaps. 

milk/taste/texture

Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe.  Note cap texture, smell, colour and taste of milk, and whether colour of milk changes.   An indication of size is helpful. You must note the tree species under which it was found.  

Associated with Aspens and Willows.

Autumn.

Widespread though not particularly common in Britain.

Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.