Wood Blewit
Lepista nuda
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How to Identify Wood Blewit
| Cap | Initially a blue-purple, turning a light brown with age. They have a smooth surface, and reach 6-15cm in diameter. |
| Gills | Similar to the cap, the gills start off lilac in colour and fade to light brown over time |
| Stem | The stem is sturdy, between 1.5-2.5cm in diameter, and is lilac in colour |
| Spores | Pale pink-light brown |
| Smell | A faint aniseed smell |
Where to find them?
This mushroom is found amongst leaf litter in deciduous and mixed woodland, also occasionally under hedgerows, in permanent pasture and on compost heaps. It is sometimes seen growing in circles, known as ‘fairy rings’.
Did you know?
Lepista is derived from the Latin meaning goblet, and is a reference to the concave, funnel-shaped caps seen in mature specimens of this fungus.
Don’t mistake it with
May be confused with the Field blewit Lepista saeva which has a violet-blue coloured stem, but which does not have the same colouring to the gills or the cap. The Goatcheese webcap Cortinarius camphoratus is similar in certain respects, although rare. The Bruising webcap, Cortinarius purpurascens shares the purple-brown cap, purple stem and gills, but may be distinguished by its markedly-swollen stem base and the rust colour left by the spores on its gills.
