Blewit confirmation please :)

[Jayemsee]

I've just found a cluster of fungi, on a lawn with oak and beech nearby.
I think they're blewits except for the web (second pic) which makes me wonder if they're a Cortinaria.

[juliohevia]

No Blewit mate. Cortinarius sp.

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by Jayemsee

I've just found a cluster of fungi, on a lawn with oak and beech nearby.
I think they're blewits except for the web (second pic) which makes me wonder if they're a Cortinaria.

Julio is correcto. This is not a Wood or Filed Blewit but Cortinarius purpurescens.

Andy

[Jayemsee]

Thanks for that but help my confusion - Roger Philips says violaceous to deep purple when cut or bruised and here's one I cut earlier (about 3 hrs ago)

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Jayemsee

Thanks for that but help my confusion - Roger Philips says violaceous to deep purple when cut or bruised and here's one I cut earlier (about 3 hrs ago)

errmm, yes . . . . but look at that spore-print!

cheers

Chris

[Andy Overall]

Originally Posted by Jayemsee

Thanks for that but help my confusion - Roger Philips says violaceous to deep purple when cut or bruised and here's one I cut earlier (about 3 hrs ago)

May not be C. pupurescens, looked like it to me but its a very difficult genus and there are a few with this purple stem, brown-purple cap look. Its certainly Cortinarius and within the sub group Phlegmacium.

Andy

[Jayemsee]

Is that spore print typical of C. purpurascens then Chris?

[Jayemsee]

OK, Thanks Andy - I shan't eat it anyway!