Mushrooms in the autumn wood. The violet mushroom lies on old dark gray stub.


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 related genus Russula, their flesh has a distinctive brittle consistency. It is a large genus with roughly 350 known species, mainly distributed in the Northern hemisphere. Lactarius lilacinus is a species of the large milk-cap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales.


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