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Lactarius piperatus - Firstly on TN (56)
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The festive season is over, we all returned to our 8-hour daily work... Which means I have less time for TrekNature, so my "tactics" will be one image / upload per week, on Sunday afternoon (CET), and in the meantime only commenting. Otherwise I should be "down" with my critiques / comments, but I also should like to give, not only get, if You know, what I mean... TN and commenting is a serious part of my life, and we're all here to learn and share... how should we learn without others' opinion?
My choice for this week is a very common specie, Lactarius piperatus, which You most probably saw on Your trips if You're living in the boreal region of the Northern hemisphere. Although it's frequent, I didn't find any image of it on our beloved TN, so it's the local debut of this specie. And this is such interesting for me as sharing a photo of a rare fungus specie.
You can read about Lactarius piperatus on Roger's Mushrooms or on mushroomexpert.
Common English name: Peppery Milkcap.
Hungarian name: Bitter Mushroom.
Edibility: only after boiling. Otherwise its taste is very hot, peppery. Some mycologist stated a subspecie, L. piperatus var. glaucescens as poisonous, but it was rather a case of emesis and diarrhoea caused by the hot taste of the mushroom.
I have several photos of this specie, from which I chose this one to upload, and another from this very same group (from another POV) as workshop. PP: color balance, framing, signing, re-sizing.
I hope You like it.
Note update, a few hours later:
- I checked out my literature to give more informative answer to John's ('jpdenk') question. Here in Hungary it's boiled together with bacon and ewe-cheese. No need to change water as in the boiling procedure of otherwise slightly poisonous Lactarius species like L. torminosus for example. I myself never tried it, but the people who used to eat L. piperatus this way say it's one of the tastiest mushrooms.
- Lactarius piperatus var. glaucescens is now a standalone specie, wearing the name L. glaucescens (source: Index Fungorum), and I never found any more infos about its toxic agents. What I read in my books it's an edible specie, after the same boiling procedure mentioned above. |
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