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Lactarius indigo Mushroom
Ref No: 9146
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Lactarius indigo2 Mushroom
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Lactarius indigo 12 Mushroom
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location: North America
edibility: Edible
fungus colour: Blue, Green, Grey to beige
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 indigo (Schw.) Fr. Cap 5-15cm across, convex-depressed with an inrolled margin at first; indigo blue when fresh, fading to grayish, then having a silvery luster, with deep green areas where bruised; sticky, smooth, zoned. Gills adnate, close, broad; indigo blue or paler to yellowish from the maturing spores, staining green when bruised. Stem 20-80 x 1-25mm, hard becoming hollow, often tapered toward the base; indigo blue to silver blue, spotted at times; sticky but soon dry. Flesh whitish, promptly turning indigo blue when cut, staining greenish. Latex deep indigo blue, becoming dark green on exposure to the air. Odor mild. Taste mild or slightly bitter or slightly acrid. Spores broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, amyloid, 7-9 x 5.5-7.5μ,; ornamented with a complete or broken reticulum, prominences 0.4-0.5µ high. Deposit cream. Habitat scattered or in groups on soil in oak and pine woods. Common in the southeastern North America, rarer farther north. Season July-October. Edible.(Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.)

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Joshua Williams (United States) - 14 September 2015

Beautiful
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Shellly Greenspan (United States) - 08 September 2012

This is a mushroom I found in the woods sourrounding my house in Salem, S.C.
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Todd Shury (Canada) - 16 July 2011

Growing under planted pine forest with moss understory. August 29 2007 near Big River, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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