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Lactarius torminosus, commonly known as the Woolly milk-cap, is a large basidiomycete fungus in the genus Lactarius.
It has a hairy pink funnel-shaped cap up to 12 cm in diameter, which is furry and zonate. When the flesh is broken it bleeds a milky latex which remains white. It grows in association with birch and is found throughout the United Kingdom and northern Europe.
It can induce severe and violent vomiting when eaten fresh, and has been reported to have caused death on one occasion. In Finland, Russia and other North European countries it is eaten, after boiling or five-day soaking, pickled and valued for its hot, burning taste.
