Blue 'Shrooms!
Blue 'Shrooms!
Don't think I've ever seen anything quite like this before...
Karl
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!
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.
Re: Blue 'Shrooms!
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?
Karl
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!
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.
Re: Blue 'Shrooms!
Huh! I did see others with that more lilac hue, as well. And, that last one you included, too...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.
Tuesday (11/11), near junction of Larch Mountain and Franklin Ridge trails.
Saturday (11/08), along Toutle Trail, just north of Blue Lake.
Karl
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Re: Blue 'Shrooms!
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!
Really cool pictures. Love the colors.
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