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Wood Blewit

Description:

These mushrooms looked like the Field Blewit (Lepista Personata) but they were growing in a coniferous forest, not even on the edge of the forest, but well into the woods. There were quite a few of them growing in the same spot and as you can see in the third photo, the older specimens loose their purple color with time.

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5 Comments

RandyL.
RandyL. 10 years ago

I'd have to see a clear shot of the gills to be convinced of anything for this mushroom. To me, that cap looks like some kind of Cortinarius species.

CorduneanuVlad
CorduneanuVlad 10 years ago

OK, I changed the name.

Thanks, once more.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Yes that's what happens to wood blewits. They start with purple when young and by the time they are old they are very dark brown like chestnuts.

CorduneanuVlad
CorduneanuVlad 10 years ago

I don't know, I mean as these mushrooms were getting older, the color was changing to brown.
The shape of the cap also is a sign, the edge turns upwards with age. I don't know if this happens to the Blewits (wood or field).

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 10 years ago

Not Clitocybe nuda - the 'wood blewit' ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitocybe_n...

CorduneanuVlad
Spotted by
CorduneanuVlad

Hunedoara, Romania

Spotted on Oct 14, 2013
Submitted on Oct 14, 2013

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