In pine woods and less frequently with birches on acid heaths.
L. torminosus (Fries) S. F. Gray Woolly milk-cap
Cap: width 40-150 mm. Stem: length 60-100 mm; width 15-30 mm.
Cap: pale strawberry-pink or pale salmon colour, distinctly zoned, slimy when wet at centre and strongly shaggy fibrillose at margin.
Stem and gills: pale strawberry colour.
Flesh: tinged salmon-pink and exuding a white unchangeable milk-like liquid.
Frequent where birches grow.
Amanita muscaria (Fries) Hooker Fly agaric
Cap: width 100-175 mm. Stem: width 30-40 mm; length 150-275 mm.
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