Blue 'Shrooms!

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Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by kepPNW » November 12th, 2014, 1:45 pm

Don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this before...
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They were extremely prevalent along a 3/4-mile stretch of the Oneonta Trail yesterday (11/11), mostly just above the Bell Creek junction, and ranged in size from 3-5" in diameter.
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by bobcat » November 12th, 2014, 5:14 pm

Wood blewits (Clitocybe nuda): I remember quite a few on the Bell Creek Trail in the fall; also a lot around Timothy Lake. They're supposed to be edible although I haven't tried them.

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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by kepPNW » November 12th, 2014, 5:31 pm

Wow, okay, reading up on those it does sound like that might be it. Sounds like they're most colorful when young, and then turn a much duller color with age. But I failed to find even a single photo that came anywhere near showing them in this state of blueness, nor do I see those radiating elliptical spots on top?
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by Koda » November 12th, 2014, 5:35 pm

empirical evidence of smurfs?
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by bobcat » November 13th, 2014, 10:13 am

I don't have any pictures of them with such a blue hue; usually they're a lovely lilac when they first come out. The spots/streaking will turn brownish with age. We don't have anything they can be confused for, anyway - the only other largish "purple" fungus is the violet cortinarius - quite different as you can see.
Blewit (Clitocybe nuda), Little North Santiam.jpg
Blewits, Big Creek Falls.jpg
Violet cortinarius (Cortinarius violaceus), Little North Santiam.jpg

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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by kepPNW » November 13th, 2014, 10:36 am

bobcat wrote:I don't have any pictures of them with such a blue hue; usually they're a lovely lilac when they first come out. The spots/streaking will turn brownish with age. We don't have anything they can be confused for, anyway - the only other largish "purple" fungus is the violet cortinarius - quite different as you can see.
Huh! I did see others with that more lilac hue, as well. And, that last one you included, too...
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    Tuesday (11/11), near junction of Larch Mountain and Franklin Ridge trails.
I guess that's what these are, too? Saw them earlier last weekend, up near MSH...
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    Saturday (11/08), along Toutle Trail, just north of Blue Lake.
Definitely a very different look on top!
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by sprengers4jc » November 13th, 2014, 11:28 am

So cool! I have seen many shrooms but never purple or blue. I must find some for myself :).
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!

Post by Lumpy » November 13th, 2014, 11:58 am

Really cool pictures. Love the colors.
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