Indigo milk cap
Lactarius indigo · 靛蓝乳菇
Occasional红菇科🍽 Reported Edible (Wild)
Reference sources describe this as an edible wild fungus. This guide provides no basis whatsoever for foraging or consumption.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Entirely indigo blue, cap marked with concentric zones
- Bleeds blue latex when cut, turning green over time
- Grows in woodlands of the Americas and East Asia
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 红菇科
- Hymenium
- Gills
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 5–15 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Ground in mixed pine-oak woods
Fun Fact
Break it open and deep indigo-blue milk oozes out, slowly turning inky green in the air — one of the world's few genuinely blue mushrooms.
More in this family
- Blackening brittlegill
- Charcoal burner
- Green-cracking russula
- Hatsudake
- Japanese russula
- Rank russula
- Saffron milk cap
- The sickener
- Woolly milkcap