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Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Lactarius deliciosus (Saffron Milk Cap). The mushroom is Edible and good. It grows in Europe.
Description: This attractive, fairly large, buff agaric with distinctive salmon -pink blotches, pale carrot colour gills exudes carroty milk. It grows grows solitary or in scattered groups on soil under conifers, favouring pine trees.
Cap first round and bumpy, then convex and as mature flat with a depressed center. The margin stays rolled in until maturity. It has concentrically zoned thin rings in orange and somewhat wider zone in salmon go gray pink. Often with carrot colored patches. Sticky and slippery when wet. Gills at first apricot or saffron, becoming carrot, dull green on bruising, dense and sub-decurrent before abruptly ending. Stem similarly coloured as cap, thick and hard but also fragile, more or less equal, and patterned with different-sized shallow holes in a darker shade.
Similar species Lactarius deterrimus found with spruce trees has a smooth stem and exudes green staining orange milk.
Lactarius "deliciosus" group on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 3-10 cm diameter, stem 3-6 cm tall * 1.5 - 2 cm diameter
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
