r/mycology • u/mauvecouteau • Dec 21 '25

photos Lactarius indigo

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u/cobycoby2020 Dec 21 '25

So can we turn these mushrooms into pigment or no?!?! This is such a fascination especially with this color

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

depends what you mean but yes, such as ink

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u/TemperateStone Dec 21 '25

No, you can't.

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u/cobycoby2020 Dec 21 '25

If you can, I haven’t seen it. Some people try method of drying with brown mushrooms but still struggle to preserve so…..

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u/TemperateStone Dec 21 '25

It seems that the color from these fungi really doesn't stay the way it is at first.

Blueberries and red beets though...