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Milk-cap fungus

Lactarius eucalypti

Photo by Leuba Ridgway
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Description:

Beautiful smooth brown fruiting bodies with centrally depressed caps. Stipe was the same colour and gills were a pale brown. When bruised, the gills produced white "milk" as can be seen in pic 2.

Habitat:

Spotted on forest floor - eucalypt forest.

Reference Links:

Lactarius eucalypti - Wikipedia, Lactarius eucalypti | Atlas of Living Australia

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