Lepista saeva

[thebeard]

Had a little walk through the cemetary today and came across loads of what i think may be L. Saeva. not sure, so i took a couple back to have a look, they were growing in grass, some very small, some upto around 10cm. The spore print was white, though i read it should be pink. had the lilac tinge on the stems as well but i cut them off to do a spore print so you can't really see anything of it on the photos. all the other macro features seem to add up though.

any thoughts?



and the spore print


cheers
tom

[Ditiola]

Hi
From your photo the spores look pink to me. It is supposed to be a pale pink not a bright punk pink. If you scrape them into a pile I think you will be convinced they are pink. So it probably is Lepista saeva

Peter

[thebeard]

just scraped them onto a white surface and yes you're right there is a hint of pink there.

cheers
tom