#lepista

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tell us about your favorite inaturalist observations

that fungus is a clustered clitocybe (Clitocybe subconnexa) that i found during my birthday picnic last year! the taxonomy is super confusing but it is very cool to look at

that tree is called tintureira in portuguese and american pokeweed in english (Phytolacca americana), but i like the portuguese name much better. i just find the color to be so pretty and vibrant i want to squash it between my fingers and eat it (intrusive thoughts Van Gogh style)

now, the common gallinule (Gallinula galeata), i just LOVE how the name in portuguese is galinha-d'água, water chicken are you kidding me?? fucking PERFECT i love the water chicken everybody shut up

and that flashy colorful disheveled thing is a walker's moth (Sosxetra grata) and when i first laid eyes on it i made a sound like uuuhh-aaaghhh is was very weird

thank you so much for asking ❤️🍄

[witchstone]

lepista sordida, aka a sordid blewitt, aka the horny bird namers have moved on from birds to fungi

[mushrooms-switzerland]

Lilastieliger Rötelritterling, Lepista Personata 04.02.22

[mikroskopie]

Lamella square cuts

Parasol, macrolepiota procera

Lavendelfarbener Rötelritterling, Lepista glaucocana

[mushroomgay]

London, UK, January 2022

Field blewit (Lepista saeva)

Gorgeous little specimen - one of 5 or 6 that I spotted on a roadside verge on my cycle home from work, which came home with me and topped a noodle soup.

I’m kinda proud that I can now spot these from above! Unlike their cousins, the wood blewit, which have a distinct purple cap, field blewits are a more modest buff brown. Like a lot of fungi, though, with a lot of hunting and spotting and practise you start to just ‘get a feel’ for what they look like and spot them more easily, before using more distinct features (such as the purple stem) to make a definitive positive ID.

[lindagoesmushrooming]

A fairy ring

[mushrooms-switzerland]

Late autumn found

Grauer Lärchenröhrling, suillus viscidus

Schopftintling, coprinus comatus

Brauner Rasling, lyophyllum decastes

Goldröhrling, suillus grevillei

Austernseitling, pleurotus ostreatus

Viol. Rötelritterling, lepista nuda

Semmelstoppelpilz, hydnum rufescens

Eierschwamm, cantharellus cibarius

07.11.21

[mushroomgay]

Finchley, London, UK, January 2019

Field blewits (Lepista saeva)

These gorgeous little field blewits were growing right outside my work. They’re more difficult to spot than wood blewits, as only their stem (rather than the cap) has the purplish tinge. To be sure I had blewits, and not a webcap (Cortinarius genus), some of which can look quite similar, I did a spore print, revealing the pinkish-white (as opposed to brown) spores.

Blewits are delicious, sort of firm and mildly nutty, but need to be cooked thoroughly to prevent gastrointestinal upset. Some people find them indigestible even if thoroughly cooked, however, so it’s recommended that you eat only a small amount the first time you try them, as I have done here when I added one to my pho.