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Weeping Milkcap - Lactifluus volemus <br /> Soft, dry, orange cap with a central depression. Attached, cream-colored gills that leaked white milk. The stipe was pale orange.<br /> <br /> Habitat: Growing on the ground in a mixed forest, but in an area dominated by oak.<br /> <br /> *This mushroom is edible, but smells horrible.<br /> <figure class="photo"><a href="https://www.jungledragon.com/image/65868/weeping_milkcap_-_lactifluus_volemus.html" title="Weeping Milkcap - Lactifluus volemus"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.jungledragon.com/images/3232/65868_thumb.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=05GMT0V3GWVNE7GGM1R2&Expires=1759968010&Signature=7Vs0bXVXUxTLm24XvxvHKYmPqSw%3D" width="200" height="170" alt="Weeping Milkcap - Lactifluus volemus Soft, dry, orange cap with a central depression. Attached, cream-colored gills that leaked white milk. The stipe was pale orange.<br /> <br /> Habitat: Growing on the ground in a mixed forest, but in an area dominated by oak.<br /> <br /> *This mushroom is edible, but smells horrible.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/65869/weeping_milkcap_-_lactifluus_volemus.html Geotagged,Lactifluus volemus,Summer,United States,fungus,lactarius,lactifluus,milkcap,mushroom,weeping milkcap" /></a></figure> Geotagged,Lactifluus volemus,Summer,United States,Weeping Milkcap,fungus,lactarius,lactifluus,milkcap,mushroom Click/tap to enlarge Promoted

Weeping Milkcap - Lactifluus volemus


Soft, dry, orange cap with a central depression. Attached, cream-colored gills that leaked white milk. The stipe was pale orange.

Habitat: Growing on the ground in a mixed forest, but in an area dominated by oak.

*This mushroom is edible, but smells horrible.

Weeping Milkcap - Lactifluus volemus Soft, dry, orange cap with a central depression. Attached, cream-colored gills that leaked white milk. The stipe was pale orange.<br /> <br /> Habitat: Growing on the ground in a mixed forest, but in an area dominated by oak.<br /> <br /> *This mushroom is edible, but smells horrible.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/65869/weeping_milkcap_-_lactifluus_volemus.html Geotagged,Lactifluus volemus,Summer,United States,fungus,lactarius,lactifluus,milkcap,mushroom,weeping milkcap

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  1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
    Flown Kimmerling
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    Yes! Quite delicious! I will only be gathering them with nitrile glvoes in the future, however, as I am tired of sticky, stinky hands!

    Also, do you know about the 3 Amigos (the three lookalikes)?     Posted 7 years ago
    1. View Christine Young's profile
      Christine Young
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      Thanks :)

      What are the 3 lookalikes??       Posted 7 years ago
      1. View Flown Kimmerling's profile
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        Lactarius volemus, corrugis, and hygrophoroides Posted 7 years ago
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        Flown Kimmerling
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        According to MushroomExpert:
        Lactarius volemus's cap "is relatively bald, and only slightly wrinkled at maturity, separating it from the similar Lactarius corrugis, which has a cap that appears covered with thin, whitish to grayish felt when young and, at maturity, often becomes prominently corrugated. Lactarius hygrophoroides is similar in appearance, but has distant gills and milk that does not turn the whole world brown."         Posted 7 years ago

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The Weeping milk cap

"Lactifluus volemus", formerly known as "Lactarius volemus", is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. It is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, in temperate regions of Europe, North America and Asia as well as some subtropical and tropical regions of Central America and Asia.

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Similar species: Russulales
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By Christine Young

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Uploaded Sep 2, 2018. Captured Sep 1, 2018 10:00 in 80 Main St, Sharon, CT 06069, USA.
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  • Canon EOS 80D
  • f/4.0
  • 1/64s
  • ISO400
  • 33mm
Captured in the summer. More summer photos.