Flesh: pinkish to apricot-coloured but becoming green with age and exuding a rich orange-red fluid which gradually becomes greyish green.
Frequent in conifer woods and plantations.
L. glyciosmus (Fries) Fries Coconut-scented milk-cap
Cap: width 20-50 mm. Stem: length 30-50 mm; width 5-8 mm.
Cap: usually with a central ‘bump’, greyish lilac, dull and minutely scaly or velvety.
Stem: white to pale yellowish.
Gills: pale yellowish to flesh-coloured then flushed lilaceous.
Flesh: pale yellowish or flushed lilaceous, smelling strongly of desiccated coconut and exuding a white unchanging milk-like liquid.
In woods and on heaths, particularly where birch is growing.