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  • We filled the basket in a couple of hours last Saturday, with slippery jacks (Suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (Lactarius deliciosus), otherwise known as pine mushrooms.

    At My Table 2008

  • We filled the basket in a couple of hours last Saturday, with slippery jacks (Suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (Lactarius deliciosus), otherwise known as pine mushrooms.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • The above photo is of a few saffron milk caps Lactarius deliciosus that were picked a couple of days ago near Buxton, after some recent rain, with more rain due today.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • The above photo is of a few saffron milk caps Lactarius deliciosus that were picked a couple of days ago near Buxton, after some recent rain, with more rain due today.

    At My Table 2007

  • I have been picking morels for twenty-five years and I have never noticed a difference in flavour between young and older morels and in other species we pick, slippery jacks (Suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (Lactarius deliciosus), we prize younger specimens as older ones have very often started to decay, giving them strong and bitter flavours, which has nothing to do with ripeness.

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • When I got there, she had already fried off some saffron milk caps Lactarius deliciosus that we had picked the previous weekend and wanted the cream to make sauce with them.

    At My Table 2007

  • I have been picking morels for twenty-five years and I have never noticed a difference in flavour between young and older morels and in other species we pick, slippery jacks (Suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (Lactarius deliciosus), we prize younger specimens as older ones have very often started to decay, giving them strong and bitter flavours, which has nothing to do with ripeness.

    At My Table 2007

  • Similar to how a cricket chirps by rubbing together sound-making apparatus in its hind legs, male club-winged manakins (Machaeropterus deliciosus) use specially adapted feathers in each wing to make a violinlike hum, a Cornell University animal behaviorist Kimberly Bostwick writes in Science magazine (July 29, 2005).

    Science 2005

  • When I got there, she had already fried off some saffron milk caps Lactarius deliciosus that we had picked the previous weekend and wanted the cream to make sauce with them.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Funnily we don't often pick field mushrooms (agaricus spp.), mostly we get slippery jacks (suillus luteus) and saffron milk caps (lactarius deliciosus) and we have a couple of secret spots where we find birch mushrooms (leccinum scabrum).

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

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