Ugly milkcap

Lactarius necator

Genus Lactarius. Family Russulaceae. Order Russulales.

Ugly milkcap — Photographs 1 — **Ugly milkcap.**
Photo Михаила Андреева

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Lactarius necator, the ugly milkcap, is a milkcap with an olive-brown to almost black cap. It forms mycorrhiza with birch and grows in coniferous and mixed forests with birch as well as in birch woods, usually in large groups. Season: August to September. Translated from the Russian-language Wikipedia.

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Ugly milkcap — Photographs 4 — **Ugly milkcap.**
Photo Wikipedia, George Chernilevsky

Ugly milkcap — Photographs 5 — **Ugly milkcap. Mycological illustration.**
Emil Doerstling, file cropped and uploaded by Francisco Welter-Schulte / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Ugly milkcap

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