– Cap white to light gray-brown, often yellow-spotted and with a cracked center with age.
– Pores white, often lemon-yellow-spotted, decurrent.
- Flesh white, often with a lemon-yellow to greenish-yellow hue.
Polypores
Forest Lamb
Albatrellus ovinus
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with spruce in mossy spruce forests and coniferous forests. Common throughout northern Europe.
Notes
Edible and delicious when breaded and fried as a vegetarian patty. The flesh changes color when heated, turning yellow-green. If cooked in an iron pan, the pieces may turn black, but the nutritional value remains unchanged.
Similar species
Albatrellus confluens lacks lemon-yellow spots, often grows in dense groups, edible when young.
Albatrellus citrinus is smaller, often grows in dense groups in calcareous forests.
Albatrellus subrubescens, growns with pine.
Albatrellus citrinus is smaller, often grows in dense groups in calcareous forests.
Albatrellus subrubescens, growns with pine.
