Hatsudake
Lactarius hatsudake · 红汁乳菇
Rarely Seen红菇科🍽 Reported Edible (Wild)
Reference sources describe this as an edible wild fungus. This guide provides no basis whatsoever for foraging or consumption.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Cap pinkish orange with concentric zones
- Bleeds dark red latex when cut, later staining green
- Grows under pine, most common in early autumn
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 红菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 4–10 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Rarely Seen
- Habitat
- Ground in Masson pine woods
Easily Confused With
Saffron milk capCap orange with concentric zones, center depressed
Woolly milkcapHatsudake has dark red milk; woolly milkcap has white milk and a hairy cap margin.Fun Fact
Its milk runs wine-red rather than the saffron milk cap's carrot-orange, and it likewise turns bluish-green where bruised.
More in this family
- Blackening brittlegill
- Charcoal burner
- Green-cracking russula
- Indigo milk cap
- Japanese russula
- Rank russula
- The sickener