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Corrugated-cap Milky
Lactifluus corrugis is a large milk cap of eastern North America, mycorrhizal with oaks. Its velvety, dark brownish-red cap often becomes deeply wrinkled (corrugated) with age. Its copious white latex stains tissue and paper brown. It is closely related to L. volemus but has a darker, redder cap, stem and gills.
Edible; Wikipedia calls it a choice edible. Its closest look-alikes, Lactifluus volemus (paler orange-brown cap) and L. hygrophoroides (pinkish-orange cap), are also edible. Confirm the copious white latex that stains brown, and do not eat any milk cap you have not identified with certainty.
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