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Lactarius controversus

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Wikipedia Abstract

Lactarius controversus is a large funnel-capped fungus within the genus Lactarius, which are collectively known as 'milk caps'. They all exude milky drops (lactate) from the flesh and gills when damaged. It has no common English name.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Morecambe Bay 151985 England, United Kingdom
Sefton Coast 11278 England, United Kingdom

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Salix repens rosmarinifolia (creeping willow)[1]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0