Flowery Blewit

Lepista irina

Among grasses, mixed, damp, grassy forests, raised bogs, forest margins. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies large. Cap 5-15 (20) cm across, when young bell-shaped, later irregularly flattened, hygrophanous, fleshy, fibrous, yellowish-brownish, cream, flesh-coloured. Gills narrow, crowded, cream, adnate. Stem 7-10x1-4 cm, thickening towards the base, fibrous, longitudinally grooved, tough, the colour of the cap. Flesh white, brownish, thick, soft, not bitter, with an unpleasant smell of sweet violet. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies massive, fleshy, tough, growing in large groups. Grows in gloomy, grassy places, several or several dozen fruiting bodies together. Uncommon. Edible. Opinions of it vary, although it is highly praised by the Germans and compared to valuable field mushrooms.