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milk mushroom

noun

  1. any of the common latex-containing mushrooms of the genus Lactarius.


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"Delicious Lactarius" or "Orange Milk Mushroom."

Color of the cap dull orange, turning paler, and grayish or greenish yellow when old or dried; margin at first turned inwards; flesh whitish or tinged with yellow; gills decurrent, crowded rather thick, sometimes slightly forked at the base, pale yellow, sometimes a saffron yellow, exuding when bruised a saffron-red or orange-colored liquid, hence the popular name of "Orange Milk Mushroom;" stem smooth, somewhat spotted, stout, stuffed with a yellowish pith, eventually becoming hollow; color about the same as that of the cap.

This mushroom is sometimes called the "Fiery Milk Mushroom."

Farther on they entered a patch of fir-wood where a little search rewarded them with two or three dozen specimens of the orange milk mushroom, a kind so agreeable to the palate that the botanists have dubbed it delicious.

Reserve a little of the mixture and to it add some tomato juice or milk, mushroom ketchup, or diluted extract.

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