Lactarius chelidonium
Medium mud-blue with a sticky orange-brown smooth zoned cap with inrolled margin and convex becoming yellow-orange-brown to greenish, flat to shallowly funnel-shaped with a depressed central disc. Gills are dull orange-greenish-blue and bruise or stain dark olive-green. Stem is paler concolorous with the cap and dry. Latex is sparse, bright yellow becoming yellow-brown. Spores are pale buff to yellow-orange. Found under conifers (pines) in late fall and autumn. Taste is mild to slowly peppery. Edible.
Lactarius chelidonium var. chelidonium
Lactarius chelidonium var. chelidonium
Lactarius chelidonium var. chelidonium