Ugly Milkcap - Lactarius turpis
A large milkcap with distinctive yellowish-olive, brownish or greenish-black caps. Sticky when wet, drying matt. Young caps may have a bristly inrolled margin. Milk white, quickly acrid-tasting. Ammonia or Potassium hydroxide on the cap immediately turns bright purple.
Birch
Late summer and autumn
Grows either solitary or in groups
Common and widespread in Britain.
Common in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Melinda Bell
Beacon Hill Country park,Jewels Hill
21 October 2024
David Nicholls
Ratby Church
05 November 2011
David Nicholls
Cademan Wood
04 November 2012
Lostash
Whetstone Cemetery
06 November 2015
David Nicholls
Charnwood Lodge
11 October 2023
stains purple with ammonia
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Species profile
- Common names
- Ugly Milkcap
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Russulales
- Family:
- Russulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 39
- First record:
- 01/10/2004 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 07/11/2024 (Bell, Melinda)
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Lostash
Whetstone Cemetary
22 October 2015
Lostash
Whetstone Cemetery
31 October 2015
Lostash
Whetstone Cemetary
22 October 2015
David Nicholls
Martinshaw Wood
01 October 2004
