Lactifluus volemus
Lactifluus volemus is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. It is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, in temperate regions of Europe, North America and Asia. The colour of the L. volemus mushroom varies from apricot to tawny.
About Lactifluus volemus in brief
Lactifluus volemus is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. It is widely distributed in the northern hemisphere, in temperate regions of Europe, North America and Asia. The colour of the L. volemus mushroom varies from apricot to tawny. The pale golden yellow gills on the underside of the cap are closely spaced and sometimes forked. One of the mushroom’s most distinctive features is the large amount of latex that it exudes when the gills are damaged, leading to the common names weeping milk cap and voluminous-latex milky. It also has a distinctive fishy smell, which does not affect the taste. The mushroom also contains a natural rubber that has been chemically characterized. Phylogenetic analysis suggests it represents several species or subspecies, rather than a single taxon. Lactarius wangii, reported by Hua-An Wen and Jian-Zhe Ying to be a new species from China in 2005, was synonymised two years later with L. Volemus. In the West Virginian mountains of the United States, the mushroom is called a “leatherback” or a “bradley back” The latter name may originate from its German name Brätling. L. voleMus is valued as an edible mushroom, and is sold in markets in Asia. Several other species of LactifLUus resemble L.voleMus, but these can be distinguished by differences in distribution, visible morphology, and microscopic characteristics.
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin vola, meaning ‘the hollow of the hand’ L.VoleMus was first published in 1753 by Carl Linnaeus. In 1821, Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries called it Agaricus Volemus in his Systema Mycologicum. In. 1871 Paul Kummer raised most of Fries’s tribes to generic rank, and so renamed the species Galorrheus volesus. In 1998, Otto Kuntze moved the species into LactIFluus, which was afterwards long considered a synonym of Lactsarius but confirmed as a separate genus through molecular phylogenetics in 2008 and subsequent taxonomical rearrangements within the family. LactsifLUUS is a mycorrhizal fungus that grows on the ground at the base of various species of trees from summer to autumn, either individually or in groups. It has roughly spherical spores about 7–8 micrometres in diameter. The fruit bodies have been chemically analysed and found to contain several sterols related to ergosterol, some of which are unique to this species. The species is also known as the “milk cap” or the “tawny milkcap” It is also called the lactarius orange, the fishy milk cap, the orange-brown milky, the milkcap, or the lactius orange.
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