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Lactarius deliciosus.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Edelreizker, Izletes rizike, Lactaire delicieux, Saffron Milkcap, Vache rouge
Lactarius deliciosus var deliciosus Mushroom
Ref No: 9090
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Lactarius deliciosus Mushroom
Ref No: 9094
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location: North America, Europe
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Yellow, Green, Red or redish or pink, Violet or purple, Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
stem type: Simple stem
flesh: Flesh exudes coloured latex (milk) when cut, Flesh discolours when cut, bruised or damaged, Flesh granular or brittle, Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Lactarius deliciosus (L. ex Fr.) S. F. Gray. Saffron Milkcap, Lactaire delicieux, Vache rouge, Edelreizker, Ízletes rizike, Lappacendro buono, sanguinino, Oranjegroene melkzwam, Pinetell.
Cap 3–10cm across, convex then shallowly funnel-shaped, with numerous small purplish-brick to salmon blotches arranged in narrow, concentric bands on a pale flesh or rosy buff background, becoming tinged greenish in places, slightly sticky, firm, brittle, margin incurved at first. Stem 30–60 x 15–20mm, pale buff or vinaceous to orangy or salmon, sometimes with darker, shallow, spot-like depressions, becoming green in places. Flesh pale yellowish, carrot in places from the milk (after one hour or so) fading and finally dull greyish green. Gills slightly decurrent, closely spaced, pale pinkish apricot to saffron, becoming carrot and slowly dull pistachio green on bruising. Milk carrot; taste mild or slightly bitter. Spore print pale ochre (F). Spores elliptic, with thin to thickish ridges forming a fairly full network, 7–9 x 6–7ì. Habitat under pines or spruce. Season summer to autumn. Uncommon in England, more frequent in Scotland. Edible and much esteemed in Spain.(Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distribution, America and Europe.


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Gökhan ASARKAYA (Turkey) - 14 January 2015

23.11.2014
Lactarius deliciosus
Nikota Androv (Turkey) - 28 November 2014

Found in Antalya.
Lactarius deliciosus
Bernat Escoda (Andorra) - 05 September 2014

Bosc de La Rabassa - Sant Julià de Lòria - Andorra 05/09/2014
Lactarius deliciosus
Zoran Tasovac (Canada) - 16 August 2013

Found in great numbers under spruce, near Cambridge, Ontario, 14th of August, 2013.
Lactarius deliciosus
Tudor Ioana (Romania) - 12 December 2012

Paul Covic si Ioana Tudor, Romania, 2012
Lactarius deliciosus
Chris von Ruhland (United Kingdom) - 13 December 2011

Spores stained with Melzer's reagent, showing amyloid staining and network of ridges
Lactarius deliciosus
Marjan Kustera (Yugoslavia) - 04 May 2011

Increases in young plantations of white and black pine, often at the edge of the forest, on the sunny side. In Serbia, can be harvested from August to late November. Every year large quantities of the fungus collected from the pickers and sold through exports to Western Europe at very low prices. Find and photo by Marjan Kustera,SERBIA
Lactarius deliciosus
Mirosław Wantoch-Rekowski (Poland) - 23 February 2011

Kaszuby-Poland
Lactarius deliciosus
Lazar Payakoff (Bulgaria) - 14 June 2010

Lactarius deliciosus, 13 June 2010, Gabrovo, Bulgaria
Lactarius deliciosus
lee collins (United Kingdom) - 24 April 2009

Saffron Milkcap in grass under pines
Lactarius deliciosus
TOMAS SZASZ (Chile) - 25 March 2009

LACTARIUS DELICIOSUS It is not mentioned that CHILE (also Argentina) is one of the largest producer and exporter for this mushroom. Millions of hectars of cultivated pine forests produce thousand sof tons of this variety which is processed principally in brine, also frozen and exported to Europe. There is neither mention of the variety BOLETUS LUTEUS or BOLETUS SULLIUS, widely exploited in CHILE, exported frozen, dried and in brine. In a normal year the volume comes up to ten thousand metric tons...
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