Blue-edge Pinkgill

Entoloma serrulatum

Meadows, pastures, open places, among grass. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-3 (4) cm across, conically convex-flattened, narrowly depressed in the centre, surface rough, finely scaly, bluish-black, violet-blue, violet-brown. Gills whitish, pale dark blue, with a greyish-pink tinge when old, edges blackish-blue toothed, adnexed. Stem 3–7x0.1–0.4 cm, dark blue, whitish-hairy at the base. Flesh greyish-blue. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies blackish-blue, cap depressed in the middle. Grows in small groups among grass in meadows, pastures and open places. Inedible. Rare.