We are now into the middle of Summer and some of the recent heavy rains have brought some early Indigo Milk Cap (
Lactarius indigo) mushrooms. The Indigo Milk Cap gets its name from the deep blue "milk", or latex, that oozes when the mushroom tissue is cut or broken. This is one of a very few blue mushrooms and is delicious when sliced and cooked in butter.
I know of 4 locations on our property where I find these blue mushrooms and all of them are at the edge fields next to white pine trees. This "button" of a mushroom will be ready to pick in a few days.
This large blue mushroom wasn't here a couple of days ago when I mowed this field. I might let it spread its spores for the next crop.
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