Lepista nuda
Lepista nuda - Wood Blewit - is sometimes called Clitocybe nuda or Tricholoma nuda. Although most sites describe it as occcuring in America and Europe only, it defintely grows in Australia. We first came across it growing in profusion amongst Amanita echinocephala (facacenea) which was also growing in great profusion in grassy paddocks at the end of the Megalong Valley Road in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Cap 6–12cm across, flattened-convex becoming depressed and wavy, bluish lilac at first then more brownish, drying paler. Stem 50–90´15–25mm, often slightly bulbous at the base, bluish-lilac, fibrillose. Flesh thick, bluish-lilac. Taste and smell strongly perfumed - not the most pleasant smell.
This fungi is supposed to be excellent eating, though to date we haven't tried it. Gills crowded, bluish-lilac fading with age to almost buff. Spore print pale pink. Spores elliptic, supposedly minutely spiny (but couldn't see that with my microscope), 6–8´4–5m
- Lepista nuda in open grass paddock, growing in great profusion amongst Amanita echinocephala (also growing in great prof
- Lepista nuda in open grass paddock, growing in great profusion amongst Amanita echinocephala (also growing in great prof
- Lepista nuda in open grass paddock, growing in great profusion amongst Amanita echinocephala (also growing in great prof
- Lepista nuda in open grass paddock, growing in great profusion amongst Macrolepiota dolichaula (also growing in great pr
