A medium-sized, pale ochre to pinkish-cinnamon milk cap of northeastern North America with a sticky cap and white, unchanging, acrid latex. It is common around the Great Lakes. Several similar pale, acrid milk caps make field identification difficult.
Eastern Canada south to New York and west to Michigan, with reports from western Canada; common in the Great Lakes region.
Characteristics
Cap: 5-11 cm, convex becoming broadly convex and shallowly depressed; sticky to slimy when fresh, smooth, pale ochre-yellow to pale pinkish cinnamon, paler toward the margin. Gills: slightly decurrent, close, broad, sometimes forked near the stem, white to cream. Stem: 3-8 cm long, 1.2-2 cm thick, nearly equal, becoming hollow, smooth and sticky when fresh, white or brownish. Flesh: white, odor not distinctive. Latex: white, unchanging, not staining tissues; latex and flesh acrid. Spore print: white. Spores: 8-10.5 x 7-8 µm, broadly ellipsoid, warted and ridged, amyloid.
