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Yellow-staining Milk Cap
A cinnamon-pink to reddish-brown, sticky-capped milk cap of conifer woods. Its white latex turns yellow within seconds, and the gills develop pinkish to reddish-brown (vinaceous) stains. It is common under eastern white pine in the Northeast and is poisonous.
Poisonous; do not eat. Many guides advise avoiding any milk cap whose white latex turns yellow. Edible orange milk caps such as L. deliciosus and L. thyinos have orange latex from the start. A cut that bleeds white milk turning yellow marks this species.
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