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Lactarius indigo
Sign in to saveAlso known as indigo milk cap, indigo milky, indigo lactarius, blue lactarius, blue milk mushroom
species of Agaricomycetes
Species
Least ConcernSPECIES
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderRussulales
- FamilyRussulaceae
藍綠乳菇（學名：Lactarius indigo），又名靛藍乳菇，是紅菇科下的一種真菌。它們廣泛分佈在北美洲東部、東亞及中美洲。它們生長在落葉林及針葉林內，在多種樹上長出菌根。子實體呈深藍色至淡藍灰色。當其組織破損時會流出乳汁。浮汁呈靛藍色，當暴露在空氣下會逐漸變成綠色。菌蓋闊5-15厘米，蕈柄高2-8厘米及厚1-2.5厘米。它們是可以食用的，在墨西哥、瓜地馬拉及中國都有出售。
via GBIF · IUCN
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 849
- With media
- 298
- Family
- Russulaceae
- Collections
- FC-UNAM, ENCB-IPN, IB-CUCBA-UDG, IBUNAM, FESI-UNAM, INECOL
- Recorded in
- Mexico
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Encyclopedic overview
Lactarius indigo, commonly known as the indigo milk cap, indigo milky, indigo lactarius, blue lactarius, or blue milk mushroom, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Russulaceae.
The fruit body color ranges from dark blue in fresh specimens to pale blue-gray in older ones. The "milk", or latex, that oozes when the mushroom tissue is cut or broken (a feature common to all members of the genus Lactarius) is also indigo blue, but slowly turns green upon exposure to air. The cap has a diameter of 4–15 cm (2–6 in), and the stem is 2–8 cm (3⁄4–3+1⁄8 in) tall and 1–2.5 cm (3⁄8–1 in) thick.
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