![]() ![]() Yellow gilled and no skirt, or any kind of base, just a U of its own stipes into a free gill yellow. Indigo milk caps are a very rare lactarius mushroom, and the colors of the cap, bruises that turn greenish, and the shape of the cap distinguish them from other lactarius mushrooms. Description: Cap: Various shades of blue or blue-gray, center slightly depressed to funnel. Plus with the Saffron Milkcaps or False ones, I found a shroom with a U-SHAPED DUAL STEM, which Fuses into ONE CAP of a Maroon colour. The indigo milk cap (Lactarius indigo) is a vibrant, blue-hued mushroom that offers a unique texture and taste. Found solitary or scattered on the ground in oak or pine forests. I keep missing them in their prime though, as nature just demolishes them.Ĭan I post you a picture of two oddities please? I keep finding Ruby Boletes (which I gather are soapy and disgusting) but the other day I found a sadly rather dried out specimen of a different polypore of some kind, that had literally drilled its way out of a concrete wall! It cannot be the Pavement Mushroom, which is gilled, skirted etc and I have no idea as yet, what it might have been in it’s former glory. They are used for flavoring many culinary treats such as ice cream, cookies, cheesecake, and sauces. ![]() Do they grow together?Īlso I found lots of Shaggy Parasols lately but oddly the day after I watched you mention the Amanita Pantherina, the following morning on way to the corner shop, I thought I had found one. However, one unusual group of milk cap mushrooms has the overwhelming aroma of maple syrup a single dehydrated candy cap mushroom (Lactarius rubidus, L. The interior of the mushroom will weep a blue ‘milk’, hence the name, when damaged. It grows in connection with the roots of a wide range of tree species, meaning that it’s very unlikely you’ll ever find one growing alone in a field. Notice the deep blue bruising on the gills. The gills on the underside of the Indigo milk cap stop at the stem and will turn dark when touched. Lactarius indigo is a blue or blue-gray mushroom that bleeds blue when damaged. When the mushroom is young, the cap is almost circular, becoming more irregular as it ages. This mornings more mature ones from the patch appear to have the pitted stem, whereas yesterdays one was smooth orange. The concave cap features distinctive concentric blue rings. Hi Marlow and team, pretty certain I found a bunch of these yesterday but an older specimen seemed more like a False version.
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