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Lactarius torminosus
(Schaeff.) Pers.

Nomenclature

Description

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Lactarius torminosus is a very distinctive milkcap, easily recognised thanks to the intense pink colour of the cap and stipe and the conspicuous hairs at the cap margin; it grows in association with birch (Betula sp.).

Photo © Ruben Walleyn.

 

Photo © Henk Huijser.