Lactarius lignyotus
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Description
Lactarius lignyotus, commonly called chocolate milky, is a milk-cap mushroom with a brown cap up to 10 centimetres wide, brown and white stalk, and flesh that oozes milky latex when split. It produces a yellow or ochre spore print and is found in coniferous woodlands in eastern North America.
Edible Uses
The mushroom is considered edible, though of little culinary interest.
Distribution
It is a temperate plant.
Where It Grows
Asia, Himalayas, Nepal,
References (1)
- Dongol, et al, 1995, Edible Mushrooms in Nepal
