21 October 2025 Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Beech milk cap Cap Convex, then depressed, slimy when damp, grey, pinkish brown or pale olive, usually with darker depressed spots, to about 10 cm across Gills Decurrent, whitish, then cream to pinkish Stem Cylindrical, smooth, concolorous with the cap or paler Flesh Firm, whitish, exuding a white milk which dries blue grey to greenish grey Smell Indistinct Taste Hot and acrid Season Late summer to autumn Distribution Common Habitat In deciduous woods, favouring beech Spore Print Cream Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, with warts and ridges (6-8) x (5-7) µm2 Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 21 October 2025 Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
21 October 2025 Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
October 2004 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |