A dull smoky-brown, dry-capped milk cap of eastern North American woods. Its white latex usually stains the flesh and gills pink to reddish. It belongs to a group of similar brown, pink-staining milk caps that need close examination to separate.
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Habitat
Mycorrhizal with hardwoods and conifers; alone, scattered or in groups on the ground, July to October. In Mexico recorded with Liquidambar, Magnolia, Acer and Quercus.
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Widely distributed in eastern North America, reported from western Canada, and south to northwestern Mexico.
Characteristics
Cap: 3-10 cm, broadly convex becoming flat or shallowly depressed; dry, fairly smooth, dull smoky brown to paler, sometimes nearly whitish; margin even. Gills: attached or slightly decurrent, close or crowded, white becoming pale brownish, staining pink to reddish when cut. Stem: 4-11 cm long, up to 1.5 cm thick, equal, smooth, colored like the cap or paler, whitish near the base, usually bruising slowly pinkish to reddish. Flesh: whitish, usually staining pink to reddish (less so in hot, dry weather). Latex: white, unchanging, usually staining tissues pink to reddish. Odor: not distinctive. Taste: mild to slowly acrid or peppery. Spore print: pale cream to buff. Spores: 6-8 µm, globose to subglobose, ornamentation 0.5-1.5 µm high forming broken to nearly complete reticula.
