This bluish-purple beauty oozes an indigo-colored "milk," aka latex, when the mushroom is cut or broken open. It shares its tendency to ooze or "bleed" with all mushrooms in the genus Lactarius.

Thomas and Luis-Bernardo Vazquez looked at the potential for cultivating native tree species that have been inoculated with Lactarius indigo (aka indigo milk cap), a mushroom that is highly prized ...

Sacks was desperate to see it—so much so that he began to conjure up a blob of indigo in his mind. The lactarius indigo could have saved him a trip. The mushroom’s whitish cap looks ...

But progress is especially being made in one group known as milk caps, that include a beautiful and unusually bright blue species known as Lactarius indigo, or the blue milk cap. High in dietary ...

While the beautiful coral mushroom looks like it belongs under the sea, the peculiar lactarius indigo may be better suited for outer space! From the fun-to-stomp puffballs to the prince of the ...

Gravel has created a scientific intro book for budding mycologists, combining picture-book artwork with facts about boletes (some turn blue when touched) and the Lactarius indigo (which produce a ...

They've created a family of new molecules - dubbed AzuFluor™ - based on azulene, a bright blue chemical found in the mushroom Lactarius indigo. It fluoresces when it comes into contact with a ...

They've created a family of new molecules - dubbed AzuFluor™ - based on azulene, a bright blue chemical found in the mushroom Lactarius indigo. It fluoresces when it comes into contact with a ...

While the beautiful coral mushroom looks like it belongs under the sea, the peculiar lactarius indigo may be better suited for outer space! From the fun-to-stomp puffballs to the prince of the ...