Laccaria amethystina and Leccinum friend?

[cervinae]

In one particular area of our local woods I noticed these beautiful small purple fungi growing in midsummer in a grassy area (surrounding trees beech, silverbirch and oak) often from areas where there are copious rabbit droppings. They disappeared for several months then this weekend I found them again. I've always assumed they were L. amethystina (although I'm prepared to be corrected ) and I found this fellow growing along side a Leccinum which I've been trying to figure out. When I first handled it there appeared to be a faint blue flush to the stipe but upon cutting it started of blue towards the base and took several hours before all the flesh showed a greenish blue tinge. The closest I can get is L. variicolor but there wasn't any pink bruising I could detect and the cap seemed to dark for L. verispelle. So I would be grateful for confirmation/correction on both please













Regards, David

[flaxton]

Both confirmed
Your Leccinum shows the perfect two tone dark grey/light grey cap for varicolor and the blue on and in the stipe confirms this.

Mal

[cervinae]

Super, I can tell the better half she got it wrong with her suggestion of L. scrabum which I was certain it wasn't

Many thanks Mal

Regards, David

[flaxton]

Originally Posted by cervinae

Super, I can tell the better half she got it wrong with her suggestion of L. scrabum which I was certain it wasn't

Many thanks Mal

Regards, David

Don't be too hard on her they have many of the same attributes.


Mal

[cervinae]

Don't worry, I'll just tease her a little