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Stropharia aeruginosa?
5th picture shows the thin 'pellicle', a slimy skin covering the cap of the mushroom. Second picture shows (not very well), concentric circles of blue scales. A paler fruitbody didn't give as good a spore print as the blue ones. Apparently these similar Stropharia species start off blue-green and fade to a straw colour as they get older. I get the impression from a post by Chris Yeates of wildaboutbritain that you need to use microscopy to determine whether this is Stropharia caerulea or a look-a-like: http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums... According to Wikipedia Stropharia pseudocyanea is 'smaller; slighter, but strikingly similar grassland species, with a very fleeting ring.'. Stropharia caerulea is 'a dowdier cousin.' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stropharia_...)
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Spotted on Oct 12, 2012
Submitted on Oct 13, 2012
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