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a violet-blue mushroom so gorgeous it looks photoshopped onto the forest floor
means An edible wild mushroom (genus Lepista, often Lepista nuda) prized for its lilac-to-blue cap and stem and its faintly perfumed, fruity smell.
from From the older English name 'blue hat' or 'blue button,' worn down over time into 'blewit' — a plain country description of a plainly blue mushroom. 'Blew' is simply an older spelling of 'blue,' a word with deep Germanic roots and likely cousins across the old Northern languages. So the name is exactly what it looks like: a little blue thing, named by people who saw the color and said the obvious.
- true color
- Caps and stems glow lilac to amethyst purple
- cook first
- Raw blewits can upset stomachs; heat fixes it
- the name
- From blue hat, an Old English nod
- cold lover
- Fruits late autumn, even after first frosts
- fungal hunter
- Some grow eating fallen leaves and decaying matter
blewit mushroom — lepista nuda, edible fungus with purple-blue caps found across europe and north america
wood blewit — lepista saeva, woodland mushroom species common in uk and europe, harvested commercially