#milk cap

[bethdehart]

Woolly Milk Cap

You find yourself in the presence of a strange, hypnotic entity while walking through the forest... what do you do?

Get Prints here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/bethdehart/woolly-milk-cap/ !

[whorls]

[niqvassieart]

Here is a little fairy I designed last spring for 3Dtotal's book ‘Inspired by Nature’! 🍄 This character is based on the weeping milk cap and its ecology - their task is to be a bus for forest mites and take them where they want to go. 🌲🌳🚌 The velvety mushrooms of this fungus species are fed upon by both crane fly and mite species. However, these tiny mites are too small to easily walk between isolated mushrooms so they hitch a ride on the backs of visiting flies to find a new meal! This is an interaction called phoresis in biology and similar hitch-hiking mites can often be found on big beetles who feed on animal carcasses too (another patchy food source). Find the book containing the full design process here! It’s a huge book full of so many beautiful floral/fungal characters by some amazing artists ✨

[fugitiverabbit]

You cannot kill me in a way that matters.

Art by me!

[wildspores]

Lactarius pubescens Flaumiger Milchling Downy Milk Cap or Bearded Milkcap

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Fungi February: The candy cap's unique aroma makes it one of the few mushrooms that are just as good in desserts as in entrees. As a little brown mushroom, there are numerous lookalikes, some of which are toxic.

Disclaimer: Don’t rely on pictures of cute mushrooms with eyes to accurately identify edible mushrooms. At best the wrong one will taste bad, at worst it’ll be deadly!

[fungusqueen]

Milk Cap mushroom (Lactarius sp.). In the Lactarius genus, these mushroom exude a latex or "milk" when cut or damaged. The latex is likely a defense mechanism to protect the mushroom from being eaten by insects while in its younger stages. They stop producing latex once they're past maturity and no longer producing spores. The color and opacity of the latex is key in distinguishing between certain Lactarius species (ex. Candy Caps aka Lactarius rufulus differ from look-a-likes because their latex is transparent and watery)

[zaccharine-vulture]

Lactarius sp.