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Common Milkcaps
Common Milkcaps
Lactarius
Fungi
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
A few weeks
Size
Medium
Diet
Decomposer
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
Northern Hemisphere
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Spores
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

Milkcaps are brittle fungi that grow in forests across the Northern Hemisphere. They bleed a thick, milky latex from their gills whenever the mushroom is damaged.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    spore
    A microscopic spore drifts on air or water and germinates where moisture and substrate meet.
  2. 2.
    mycelium
    A thread-like mycelium spreads through the substrate, breaking it down into nutrients.
  3. 3.
    fruiting body
    A mature fruiting body emerges to release the next generation of spores.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Russulales
Family
Russulaceae
Genus
Lactarius