Australian Capital Territory
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
New South Wales
Canberra & Southern Tablelands
The fruit body is a mushroom with a cap atop a central stem. The cap may be up to 15 centimetres in diameter and often lower in the centre than at the margins and hence shaped like a shallow funnel. The stem is stout, often 5-8 centimetres long and about 2 wide. The cap and stem are generally carrot orange and usually pitted with numerous shallow depressions. The gills are a little paler. With age the cap may fade to a paler, somewhat bleached colour.
There is neither a partial nor a universal veil.
Spore print: white.
The mushrooms may bruise green and, if broken, bleed an orange juice (though this may not happen if a mushroom has started to dry out).
This is an introduced species from the northern hemisphere and in our area is commonly found near pine trees, with which it is mycorrhizal.
Lactarius deliciosus is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | Southern Highlands | South Coast | Greater Sydney | Greater Melbourne
Maps
"Rivendell" Mimosa Park Road Berrima Bowral Broulee Moruya Nature Observation Area Bruce Ridge City Renewal Authority Area Dunlop Grasslands Genoplesium plumosum target area Genoplesium vernale target area Gibraltar Pines Glenbog State Forest Goulburn Mulwaree Council Haig Park Isaacs Ridge Isaacs Ridge and Nearby Kowen Woodland Lyneham Wetland Mongarlowe River Mount Jerrabomberra Mount Jerrabomberra QP Penrose South Pacific Heathland Reserve Sullivans Creek, Lyneham South Sullivans Creek, Turner Tallaganda State Forest Tuggeranong Pines West Goulburn Bushland Reserve Wingecarribee Local Government AreaPlaces
Berrima, NSW Bodalla, NSW Denman Prospect, ACT Emerald, VIC Glenquarry, NSW Googong, NSW Isaacs, ACT Katoomba, NSW Molonglo Valley, ACT Mongarlowe, NSW Morton, NSW Penrose, NSW Ulladulla, NSW
