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Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Russulales: Russulaceae: Lactarius fennoscandicus Verbeken & Vesterh., 1998

Lactarius fennoscandicus – False saffron milkcap

Common name: false saffron milkcap.

Russian name: Ryzhik finskiy.

Extract from Wikipedia article: Lactarius fennoscandicus is a member of the large milk-cap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales. It is found in Scandinavia, where it grows in a mycorrhizal association with spruce trees.

Photos of this mushroom from the area of St. Petersburg, Russia

Underside of a young false saffron milkcap mushroom (<B>Lactarius fennoscandicus</B>) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, <A HREF="../date-en/2024-08-02.htm">August 2, 2024</A>
LinkUnderside of a young false saffron milkcap mushroom (Lactarius fennoscandicus) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 2, 2024
Location on mapsМыс «Тарховский», Saint Petersburg, 197701, Russia
Cap of a young false saffron milkcap mushroom (<B>Lactarius fennoscandicus</B>) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, <A HREF="../date-en/2024-08-02.htm">August 2, 2024</A>
LinkCap of a young false saffron milkcap mushroom (Lactarius fennoscandicus) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 2, 2024
Location on mapsМыс «Тарховский», Saint Petersburg, 197701, Russia
Cross section of a young false saffron milkcap mushroom (<B>Lactarius fennoscandicus</B>) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, <A HREF="../date-en/2024-08-02.htm">August 2, 2024</A>
LinkCross section of a young false saffron milkcap mushroom (Lactarius fennoscandicus) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 2, 2024
Location on mapsМыс «Тарховский», Saint Petersburg, 197701, Russia
Spores of a false saffron milkcap mushroom (<B>Lactarius fennoscandicus</B>) collected earlier 8/2/2024 in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg, Russia, <A HREF="../date-en/2024-08-23.htm">August 23, 2024</A>
LinkSpores of a false saffron milkcap mushroom (Lactarius fennoscandicus) collected earlier 8/2/2024 in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 23, 2024

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Acknowledgements

Russian web-forums Planeta Gribov, V Kontakte, and Griby Sredney Polosy for learning names of local mushrooms.

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