Large  fleshy milkcap, associated with Birch.  Usually zonate cap, pale salmony pink in colour, convex with a strongly inrolled margin and becoming flattened and depressed at the centre.  It has a felty-hairy surface and a strongly bearded margin.  Mlk white, unchanging and very acrid

The Bearded Milkcap, Lactarius pubescens is paler and creamy-coloured, and is not zonate.

Woodlands, always with birch.

August to November.

Widespread but never really common in Britain.

Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.