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Wood Blewit

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Description:

These mushrooms looked like the Field Blewit (Lepista Personata) but they were growing in a coniferous forest, not even on the edge of the forest, but well into the woods.
There were quite a few of them growing in the same spot and as you can see in the third photo, the older specimens loose their purple color with time.

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Clitocybe nuda

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
RandyL.
I'd have to see a clear shot of the gills to be convinced of anything for this mushroom. To me, that cap looks like some kind of Cortinarius species.
Mark Ridgway
Yes that's what happens to wood blewits. They start with purple when young and by the time they are old they are very dark brown like chestnuts.
CorduneanuVlad
I don't know, I mean as these mushrooms were getting older, the color was changing to brown. The shape of the cap also is a sign, the edge turns upwards with age. I don't know if this happens to the Blewits (wood or field).
Mark Ridgway
Not Clitocybe nuda - the 'wood blewit' ?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitocybe_nuda
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PublishedOctober 14, 2013

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