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Large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken
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lactarius
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Lactarius is a genus of mushroom -producing, ectomycorrhizal fungi , containing several edible species. The species of the genus, commonly known as milk-caps , are characterized by the milky fluid ("latex") they exude when cut or damaged. Like the closely ...
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Heaven has given us the Mons Lactarius, where the salubrious air working together with the fatness of the soil has produced a herbage of extraordinary sweetness.
Russulas are seen in open woods, rising out of the earth, also the Lactarius, which seems to like the shade of trees.
Stevenson says that the taste of this Lactarius is delicious, that it is savory even when raw.
It resembles the orange brown Lactarius in size and shape, but the color is different, so we have placed it in the orange-colored section and L.
He was defeated and slain early in 553 at the battle of Mons Lactarius, not far from Pompeii, and the little remnant of his followers, the last of the Goths, marched northward out ot Italy and disappear from history.