Field Blewit fungi?

simonjones · #1 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 10:40 AM

Cap: Buff colour, smooth in texture
Diameter of cap: 16cm
Stalk: 7cm (length), 2.8cm (thick at top), 4cm (thick at base). The stalk is white tinged with purple. The purple colour darkened quite rapidly within an hour of picking the fungi.
Found on lawn in a fairy ring arc. This is the largest found.
Smell: nothing distinctive, slight mushroomy odour.

I recently posted a message about identifying this fungi which has since been deleted. A member (Steve, I think)kindly replied that it is a Field Blewit (Lepista Saeva). Looking at my books it very much looks like this as I cannot find any other than Blewits that have a purple tinge.

Does anyone else agree?

PMG · #2 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 11:34 AM

Yes I would say so - its a cracking looking thing!

cybershot · #3 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 12:27 PM

You are right Simon and I think the reason that your excellent thread, for which you had taken so much trouble to supply good images and descriptive detail, was deleted because in agreeing with Steve in my reply I gave a lot more valuable detail about the macroscopic differences that distinguish between the various Lepista species but inadvertently mentioned the merits of L. saeva as an edible and consequently an over zealous mod applied, beyond the letter of the law, the terms of FJ's sticky about deleting threads requesting information about edibility. If that was so I would have thought deleting my post should have been sufficient, I do sincerely apologise.

David

simonjones · #4 (**permalink**) 13-11-2009, 01:19 PM

David,

Many thanks for your reply. In my original post I asked whether the fungi was edible and as such requests are against the rules, (I should have read the sticky on this) this was why my post was deleted. I don't think it would be because of your reply.

Thanks again for your thoughts on this.

Simon