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hopefully a blewit

Photo by anne yen
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Description:

coming out of the same scrappy pine tree planting bed outside of a sports club in Starrett City, Brooklyn as the sulfur tufts, were about 8 of these blewit looking things in various stages of growth! Are these blewits indeed?! taking a spore print now. Young ones have pale lilac gills and stem, old ones have tannish gills. Caps on the young and old are tannish. The mushrooms have a lilac sheen to it, though subtle, and the bases are fat.

Habitat:

Coming out of a planting bed of pines, 2-needle pines in a densely urban area.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
anne yen
Hi Gary, the overnight spore prints are coming out a light beige color, I guess what is referred to as "buff". Is there a spore print color chart in existence somewhere? I will leave it sporing for the day and see what color I get with more time. though the lilac is fading from the mushrooms, the flesh is tinged purple, there are NO cobwebbiness on these, no ring, and there is a buttery fragrant smell to them.
garylincoff
usually in oak leaf litter, but it does look like a blewit - usually grows in bunches

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Mushroom Mapping
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PublishedNovember 9, 2010

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