18 November 2021 Medstead, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Common Name Wood blewit Cap Convex, expanding with age, becoming flattened, often with a broad central bump, smooth, brown to fawn to violet, to about 15 cm across Gills Broad, +/- close, emarginate to adnate, violet when young, brown with age Stem Cylindrical, fibrous, pale lilac, base often bulbous, often more strongly lilac Flesh Firm, lilac to brownish Smell Perfumed or fruity Taste Pleasant Season Mainly autumn to winter, occasionally in spring Distribution Common Habitat On soil and leaf litter in woods and grassland Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, with small warts (6-8) x (4-5) µm2. Basidia clavate, 4 spored. Cystidia absent. Edibility Edible, although a casual collector could confuse this species with poisonous ones in the Cortinarius genus 
18 November 2021 Medstead, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |