Lepista glaucocana (Glaucous Blewit)

Lepista glaucocana – Edible

Forest meadows, clearings, forest edges, parks, among grasses. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, large. Cap 5-10 cm across, sometimes larger, even up to 15 cm, greyish-violet, greyish-bluish. Gills crowded, greyish-violet, adnate. Stem 5-8x 1-2.5 cm, greyish-violet, with white down at the base. Flesh whitish, thick, juicy, with a woody smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies only faintly bluish (never vivid), likes open places. Grows singly or in small groups. Edible, rare. The Field Blewit is very similar to the Wood Blewit and Lepista glaucocana, but only its stem is bluish, while the cap is greyish-brownish, brownish-yellowish.