Wood Blewit

Lepista nuda

28th October 2019, Beckenham Place Park
Growing in grass in park short distance from small deciduous tree. Ring made up of clusters and singles. Cap 2-7cm, stem up to 5cm. Sweet pleasant smell, slightly perfumed. Grass colour darker inside the ring. These look and smell exactly like Wood Blewit, the spores look exactly like Wood Blewit spores, and Wood Blewit is known to grown in rings. So, despite them growing in grass rather than woodland, I think they must be Wood Blewits. ID is fairly likely. Sporeprint Very pale pink. Spores 5.5-7.5µ x 3-4.5µ.

6th December 2014, Ladywell Fields
Growing under fir trees, and also under sycamore. Several in both habitats. Cap 5-10cm. Perfumed smell. Some very young and some much older. Eaten. Spores 6-8µ x 4.5-6µ.

20th November 2014, Ladywell Fields
Growing under fir trees. Some very young, some very old. Cap 3.5-6cm. Smell perfumed mushroomy. Eaten. Sporeprint whitish. Spores 6-9µ x 4-5.5µ.

14th November 2014, Knole Park, Sevenoaks
Growing under oak. Several. Cap 7-11cm. Faint perfumed smell. Sporeprint very pale lilac. Spores 5-7µ x 3.5-5µ.

24th November 2013, Wepham Wood near Angmering
10. Cap 3cm. Perfumed smell. These are very young blewits.
14. Growing under beech. Cap 10-18cm. Somewhat perfumed or decaying smell. These are most likely very old Blewits, having lost all their lilac colour with age, but hard to be sure. ID is best guess.

8th November 2013, Andrew’s Wood near Shoreham
Growing under fir and seemingly avoiding broad leaved trees. Cap 6-12cm. Smell perfumed. Eaten. Sporeprint very pale pinkish. Spores 7-8µ x 4.5-5.5µ.


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