Lactarius pallidus

The Dun Milchling ( Lactarius pallidus )

The Dun Milchling or meat Pale Milchling ( Lactarius pallidus ) is a mushroom of the family of Täublingsverwandten. It is a medium sized Milchling, with pale flesh ocher to dirty whitish hat, the young having at least one meat pink to flesh- brown tint. The milk is white and stays that way. The smell is insignificant, the taste is quite mild, but scratching in the throat. The Milchling is a typical mycorrhizal fungus of red beech.

• 5.1 Infra Generic Systematics

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The relatively large hat is 5-15 cm wide, curved long time and then slightly depressed. The margin is initially rolled rim and often rises above the slats. The hat color is fawn, pale flesh-colored to pale ocher, more or less at the age beige. The hat is always spotted ungezont, but in places darker. The hat skin is shiny in wet weather very slimy and drought.

The cream- white to pale flesh ocher and quite dense lamellae are grown on a stick or short run down it. When the pressure they turn fuchsig to ocher pale or rostfleckig. The spore powder is pale ocher.

The cylindrical stem is 3-8 cm long and 1-1.5 ( 2) inches wide. It is quite brittle and first stuffed, but soon hollow. The slightly wrinkled stem surface is hat colors or colored slightly lighter and has often pale brownish spots.

The flesh is white to pale yellow and tastes pretty mild, but has a slightly scratchy aftertaste. The smell is insignificant. The milk is white and dries up soon, it is immutable in the air and more than a little when drying tends to dread.

Microscopic characteristics

The spores are breitelliptisch and average 7.3-7.7 microns long and 5.8-6.2 microns wide. The Q value ( Quoietent spores length and width ) is 1.1 to 1.4 microns. The spores ornament is to 1 micron high and consists of more or less numerous often spread warts and ridges, which are often arranged zebra stripe -like and partly joined with each other, but do not form a closed network. The Hilarfleck is inamyloid or partially amyloid. The basidia are cylindrical to clavate, 40-50 microns long and 9-11 microns wide and sometimes only two, but usually four sterigmata.

The spindle-shaped, 45-100 microns long and 6-10 microns wide Pleuromakrozystiden are rare to numerous. The blades cutting are heterogeneous and consist of few to numerous Basiden and numerous Cheilomakrozystiden. This measure 35-80 x 5-9 microns and are fusiform to somewhat cylindrical.

The hat skin ( Pileipellis ) is a 100-200 micron thick Ixotrichoderm consisting of irregularly ascending and more or less twisted, gnarled, 2-6 microns wide hyphae, which are integrated into a gelatinized mass.

Artabgrenzung

The Dun Milchling has little striking features. Law typically are his dun color. A doppelganger in the coniferous forest is the rare heath Milchling ( Lactarius musteus ). The Heide- Milchling is a pine companion that you can particularly be found on peat soils. For him, the stem tip is gegürtelt below the slats of pink flesh, while the stem is uniformly colored when Fallows Milchling. In addition, the slats are less dense and are also less likely than the forked Fallows Milchling.

Some Milkcaps, the fade out heavily aged, may also be confused with the dun Milchling. One of them is the sharp Nordic Milchling ( Lactarius trivialis ). His hat is usually gray violet and sometimes zoned darker in youth on the edge. It is more common in northern Europe.

More sometimes similar Milkcaps are the gray Pale Milchling (L. albocarneus ) a companion fungus of the fir and the Rosascheckige Milchling (L. controversus ) that grows in willows and poplars and surprisingly small spores has. Also the Gold Liquid milk Ling (L. chrysorrheus ), a mycorrhizal fungus of oak the Union may look similar, but it has a rapidly yellowing milk.

Ecology

The Dun Milchling is a mycorrhizal fungus, the almost exclusively with beech forms a symbiotic relationship with us. In rare cases, but can also oaks or other deciduous trees serve as host.

The Milchling is preferably present in mesophilic beech forests such as orchids beech forests, Hair barley beech forests or woodruff-beech forests, fir-beech and beech-fir forests and rarely in some Luzulo beech forests. With or without copper beech can also find him in hornbeam - oak and broadleaf tree mixed forests or parks. The Milchling preferred forests that are located in its climax. He likes fresh, medium to deep, moderately nutritious but low in nitrogen brown soils, which are more or less base- rich. The Milchling is not absolutely bound to lime.

Dissemination

The Dun Milchling occurs in Europe, it has been demonstrated but also in North Africa (Morocco ). The area of ​​distribution substantially coincides with that of the beech, but there are also some outposts outside the beech area. The species is widespread in Germany and Austria, and still relatively common.

System

Infra Generic Systematics

The Dun Milchling is placed in the section Pyrogali. The representatives of the section usually have greasy - sticky hats and one white, unchanging milk, which when dried leaves no stains normally on the fins. All species are inedible or slightly toxic.

Importance

Scoured the raw and almost mild Dun Milchling is quite edible, but he is considered by most authors as inedible. Since he is little savory, this assessment is probably justified.