When younger the cap is circular in shape and domed. The cap is a silvery color with blue rings. The inner surface of the mushroom will change from blue to green in the same manner. This milk will turn a dark green as it's exposed to air. Also, they do not grow on dead or living wood.ĭamage to the cap or stem will produce a copious bleeding of the blue milk from which the mushroom gets it's name. They usually don't appear in large numbers close to one another, preferring a more solitary life rather than a plentiful colony. It's rarer but not impossible to find them in heavy pine forests. Their distinctive blue color makes them stand out against the leaf litter below shaded, moist environs of hardwood forests of oak, hickory, and elm. Indigo Milk Cap mushrooms are a summertime treasure in the woods of Texas. Older mushroom, having lost its circular shape. The cap will weep a blue "milk" when cut or damaged. The interior of the cap and stem are blue. The gills are closely packed, stop at the stem, and don't run the etire length from cap edge to stem. Indigo Milk Caps have distinctive, blue rings on a convave (slghtly funnel shaped) cap.
ACCEPTS NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR IDENTIFICATION ERRORS BY ANY READERS. Nutritional Value: vitamins, minerals, fiberĭangers: beware of poisonous mimic Golden Milk Cap (Lactarius alnicola)ĬOLLECTING MUSHROOM REQUIRES 100% CERTAINTY.
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