So I found a nice big flush of these guys and assumed R. brevipes even if it is a bit early for those in my area. I made a cut on the gills just to check if it was lactarius, this photo was after about 1-2mins of waiting for it to bleed. Uploading to iNat I always check my assumptions against the algorithm and it's top suggestion was Lactarius controversus - blushing milkcap. Now that I am looking at it the gills do have a rosy look to them. I couldn't find much info on how quickly L. controversus starts to bleed but maybe I didn't wait long enough. There was no zonation on the cap. Found under pine/spruce/fir/poplar growing closely scattered but fouund them in also a group of about 4-5. Northern interior of BC, Canada.
I'm pretty sure this is R. brevipes but would love feedback because I'm pretty inexperienced with ID and L. controversus wasn't even on my radar before uploading to iNat.
I don't put too much faith in iNat's computer vision algorithm, it frequently IDs anything orange as Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca even if it's a polypore. It also thinks most Amanitas are Inocybe albodisca which is a misapplied name for the PNW in the first place.
This looks like part of the Russula brevipes complex to me. I'm not the most experienced with this complex but nothing about it looks out of the ordinary for brevipes so I see no reason to think it might be anything else.
I've never heard of a Lactarius taking more than a few seconds to bleed (though I once missed the latex on Lactarius pseudomucidus and had no idea what the mushroom was until I finally noticed it when I was going through photos months later).
Thanks, I guess I've read that some are slower to bleed, maybe it can just seem that way depending on how much a particular species tends to bleed.