Variety
Lactarius deliciosus olivaceosordidus
Lactarius deliciosus olivaceosordidus. Photo: (c) Jesus Garcia, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
Lactarius deliciosus, commonly known as the saffron milk cap and red pine mushroom, is one of the best known members of the large milk-cap genus Lactarius in the order Russulales. It is found in Europe and has been accidentally introduced to other countries under conifers and can be found growing in pine plantations. A fresco in the Roman town of Herculaneum appears to depict Lactarius deliciosus and is one of the earliest pieces of art to…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Order: Russulales
- Family: Russulaceae (Milkcaps, brittlegills and allies)
- Genus: Lactarius (Common milkcaps)
- Subgenus: Lactarius
- Section: Deliciosi
- Species: Lactarius deliciosus (Saffron milkcap)
- Variety: Lactarius deliciosus olivaceosordidus
- Species: Lactarius deliciosus (Saffron milkcap)
- Section: Deliciosi
- Subgenus: Lactarius
- Genus: Lactarius (Common milkcaps)
- Family: Russulaceae (Milkcaps, brittlegills and allies)
- Order: Russulales
- Class: Agaricomycetes
- Subphylum: Agaricomycotina (Higher basidiomycetes)
- Phylum: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycete fungi)
- Kingdom: Fungi (Fungi including lichens)










