How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body medium sized.
Cap
Cap 2-8 cm across, convex, becoming flat; reddish brown to orangish brown; surface dry or sticky. Flesh thin, brittle, pale orange. Taste mild to slightly sweet.
Gills
Gills adnexed to shortly decurrent, very pale orange, becoming cinnamon, close or nearly distant.
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Russulales Family
Russulaceae Genus
Milk-caps Species
Candy cap