The
cap is initially convex before developing a central depression, sometimes becoming funnel-shaped, and reaches diameters of . The cap surface is smooth overall and dry, but sometimes has small cracks in the center, and an increasingly felt-like texture moving towards the margin, which is usually fringed with 1–2-mm long hairs. The colour is initially pale cream to whitish, later becoming pale pinkish-
buff to
cream, with a more yellowish to yellowish-brown centre. The crowded
gills have an
adnate to
decurrent attachment to the
stipe. Whitish to pale pinkish-buff in colour, they are sometimes forked near the stipe attachment. The stipe measures long by in diameter, and is either cylindrical to slightly club-shaped. It has a smooth to finely felty surface with a light cream to pinkish-buff colour. The
flesh is similar in colour to the outer surfaces; it has an acrid taste and an acidic to fruity odour. The sparse
latex is white and has an immediately acrid taste.
Lactarius scoticus mushrooms produce a pale cream
spore print.
Spores are
ellipsoid in shape, measuring on average 6.5–6.9 by 4.9–5.0
μm. The spore surface features warts and ridges up to 0.5 μm high that are connected by thin ridges to form an incomplete reticulum. The
basidia (spore-bearing cells) are cylindrical to club-shaped, four-spored, and measure 30–45 by 7–9 μm. ==Habitat and distribution==