synonym commonly known milk cap semi edible fungus genus despite edible recommended poor taste dried fruiting body white mushroom funnel shaped mature exceptionally crowded gills whitish milk cut widely distributed europe eastern north_america accidentally introduced australia mycorrhizal forms relationship species deciduous tree including beech fruiting bodies found forest floor deciduous woodland taxonomy species species named officially described volume specific epithet latin meaning years naturalist considered author description recent revision international code botanical nomenclature changed rules starting date primary work names fungi previously starting date set january date works father swedish naturalist names considered valid far date publication seminal work original type species genus finding actually represented genus species type genus type species split contains mainly tropical milk caps species north temperate zone phylogenetic research showed considered variety distinct species europe furthermore existence worldwide overlap continents shown group suggesting populations north_america actually distinct species commonly known milk cap pepper milk mushroom white milk cap similar names similarly german known pepper milk cap description cap varies convex widely funnel shaped center cap white colour glossy surface cracked dry stipe white colour smooth long thick cylindrical tapering base thick layer firm white flesh gills particularly crowded narrow sharing white stem age species abundant milk latex white olive green white spore print spores spores measure tiny larger thick stipe cap crowded gills tall similar colour shape blue green tinged gills milk similar differentiated crowded gills cap margin milk close differentiated milk greenish colour distribution habitat wide sense including probably species found europe black sea region northeastern turkey eastern central north_america east minnesota accidentally introduced found introduced native trees found floor deciduous woodland particularly beech found summer autumn early winter relatively common common similar species found scattered groups found growing edibility despite described poisonous generally considered edible recommended unpleasant taste difficult digest eaten raw dried eaten fresh taste recommend butter bacon pie ways prepare milk hot taste removed boiled mushroom highly regarded russia picked dry seasons edible species available mushroom popular finland repeatedly water time store salt water served eaten fresh raw mushroom known cause reaction lips tongue hour close reported poisonous speculated caused extremely strong taste presence actual forms unusual highly regarded dish north_america species mushroom parasite orange red crust forms surface mushroom taste delicious parasite host tissues common source food red uses presence applied aid growth species plants including beech oak 19th century folk cure tuberculosis effect recent times found agent latex viral
Lactifluus piperatus