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Clitocybe nuda (Lepista nuda)
This mushroom can range from lilac to purple-pink. Some North American specimens are duller and tend toward tan, but usually have purplish tones on the stem and gills. The gills are attached to the short, stout stem. Mature specimens have a darker color and flatter cap; younger ones are lighter with more convex caps. Wood blewits have a very distinctive odor, which has been likened by one author to that of frozen orange juice
The wood blewit is found in Europe and North America and is becoming more common in Australia, where it appears to have been introduced. It is a saprotrophic species, growing on decaying leaf litter
spotted in river Homem félinhos beach
Spotted on Nov 13, 2012
Submitted on Nov 14, 2012
9 Comments
Thanks Luis and Hema for your kind words
awesome.
Great series António!
Thanks Ava, Noel and Dan,they have almost no smell when fresh and when aged they have the "normal" mushroom smell,not bad:-) but some ones are nasty:-) expecialy in the tropics,i read that some where,it's good that photos dont haved smell :-)
Very nice series, Antonio!
Very cool! Did you smell it? As far as fungi go, that sounds like an agreeable smell, compared to others I've smelt.
What a beauty!
Thanks Vlad and Pouihi for one more id
It looks like a Wood Blewit (Lepista personata), but by the looks of it, it grows where a Wood Blewit (Lepista nuda) would grow.