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Fishy milkcap

Lactarius volemus

currently accepted name: Lactifluus volemus (1891) — accepted name according to GBIF; the catalogue keeps the familiar one

Genus Lactarius. Family Russulaceae. Order Russulales.

Fishy milkcap — Photographs 1
Fishy milkcap.
Photo Wikipedia, Dan Molter

Description

Lactarius volemus, the fishy milkcap, grows from mid-July to late September in broad-leaved and mixed woods with oak and hazel, more rarely in spruce forest, sometimes near rotten wood and stumps, singly and in small groups; it is uncommon and more frequent in warmer regions. Translated from a Russian-language source.

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Photographs

Fishy milkcap — Photographs 2
Fishy milkcap.
Photo Naturalist
Fishy milkcap — Photographs 3
Fishy milkcap.
Photo Вячеслава Степанова
Fishy milkcap — Photographs 4
Fishy milkcap. Mycological illustration.
Jan Kops / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

Source: ecosystema.ru