Saturday, 4 October 2025

Milkcaps, Amanitas and Bovine Boletes at Pembury Walks

 The Saffron or Delicious Milkcap, Lactarius deliciosus, was found along the sandy path, told by its "dents", orange stipe, highly zonate cap and greenish touches

It is convex, margin inrolled at first and then vase-shaped and sharp-edged.

The next two images are of one fruiting body, first before and than after picking

   


This Milkcap is identified by ObservationID as the Birch Milkcap, Lactarius tabidus. Found in numbers under Birches, abundant and widespread. 

Caps have matt and wrinkled surfaces. Stem a little darker at base. Gills crowded and weakly decurrent. Colour flesh (pale cinnamon) and slightly darker when bruised?

Milk maybe a little sparse, soon acrid after a pause.


This is a new Amanita for me, and I think that it is Amanita excelsa, var spissa, the Grey-spotted Amanita, without serrations on the margin possibly. Seems darker around the base of the stipe below the ring than above.


and this might be the white form of the False Deathcap, Amanita citrina var alba - maybe.


Brown Rollrim


These might be the Meadow Bonnet, Mycena leucoalba


and Mycena epipterygia


and some more Bovine Boletes, Suillus bovinus
 





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