shroomersue Posted September 16, 2019 Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 Found under Hemlock in southwestern ontario, these orange capped lactarius I am finding again for past two years. Now, theres no latex to see, looked on youngun and old ones, no green tinging, and they are more white on the undersides than orange as other lactarius I have identified. The largest cap i found was 6 inches across.They tasted acrid to me, so did not collect. Psammicola? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasso Posted September 16, 2019 Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 MushroomExpert.com says: "Mycorrhizal with oaks and possibly other hardwoods", so probably something else. What, I don't know. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/lactarius_psammicola.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shroomersue Posted September 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted September 16, 2019 There were oaks nearby too, but definitely under a stand of hemlock. You can see the hemlock needle deposits on their caps surface. Psammicola seems to have hemlock as associate too. http://www.fungikingdom.net/myco-facts-by-dianna-smith/lactarius--lactifluus-prese.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted September 17, 2019 Report Share Posted September 17, 2019 L. psammicola makes sense to me. There are a few other acrid-tasting species with zonate caps similar to L. psammicola. Even the spore morphology seems ambiguous for L. psammicola. From Mushroom Expert, "... isolated, amyloid warts and short ridges that occasionally form partial reticula." This description is somewhat self-contradictory, as isolated warts do not form reticula. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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