Lactarius torminosus
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Lactarius torminosus is a large fungus in the genus Lactarius, known as the Woolly milk-cap in English.
It has a hairy pink cap up to 12cm in diameter which is furry and zonate and when the flesh is broken is bleeds a milky latex which remains white. It grows in association with birch and is found throughout the UK.
It can induce severe and violent vomiting.
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