#indigo milk cap
Prompt # 3 from @illustrious.belle’s#mothsandmushrooms witchtober challenge list, luna moth and indigo lactarius. This one started as a 30-min sprint study of a Leopold Carl Muller painting, one of five portraits he painted of a young Egyptian woman named Nasleh. I quite liked how it came out so I worked on it a bunch more and turned it into my witchtober for…October 14th. I’ll finish them all by the end of November, I swear!
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Feefals Funguary day 9! Blue milk cap!
Indigo Milkcap (Lactarius indigo)
Compared to other colors found in nature, true blues are pretty rare—but the indigo milk cap has just that! This vibrant mushroom gets it color from a pigment that is a derivative of guaiazulene, a dark blue crystalline hydrocarbon. You would think that its blueness is a marker for toxicity, but the mushroom is actually edible—although its color fades to a grayish hue when it’s cooked.
photograph by Dan Molter
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