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Blue Roundhead

Stropharia caerulea

Photo by AlexKonig
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Field Notes

Description:

Stropharia caerulea is one of very few blue-green fungi. (In most instances the caps are much nearerer to green than to blue, but when young and fresh they are very beautiful and quite startling. The caps, initially bell-shaped, flatten and turn paler from the centre. White scales near the cap rim help to identify this unusual fungus

Habitat:

In small groups among grass and occasionally leaf litter in woodland and in pastures.

Notes:

Stropharia aeruginosa is darker blue-green and its cap scales are persistent; it has reddish-brown gills with white edges; it is much less common than Stropharia caerulea

Reference Links:

Träuschlingsverwandte – Wikipedia, Stropharia caerulea Blue Roundhead identification guide

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Comments (2)
AlexKonig
your are probably right it's an old spotting, back then i didn't know what i have to look at. thanks lightworkerpeace
lightworkerpeace
Compare to http://mushroomobserver.org/observer/observation_search?pattern=stropharia+aeruginosa

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PublishedAugust 29, 2011

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