Coconut Milkcap - Lactarius glyciosmus

Cap is 2 to 5 cm across sometimes more, thin and fragile. It is convex with an inrolled margin when young, becoming flatter or shallowly depressed later. It may be finely hairy, or (at maturity) very finely scaly; usually pinkish buff but occasionally somewhat darker and browner and sometimes with vague concentric zones. It smells like It smells like the desiccated coconut used in confectionery.

In woodland or in grassland, always near birch.

Late summer to autumn.

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.