From an email by Jocie to the Botany/Mycology Group on November 22. Click a photo to enlarge it.
Here are a few examples of colourful purple-tinged fungi recently seen:
- Thanks to Ann B. for sending in this photo of a blewit (Lepista nuda) with the following note: “This photo was taken a couple of days ago under the lilac bushes along my driveway on Fraser Rd. Blewits were one of the first mushrooms that Dulcie Hamilton identified for me some 50 years ago when I lived next to her on the Back Road.” (Dulcie was a long-time member of CVN and the botany group.)
- and 3. Purple spindles (Alloclavaria purpurea) from the edge of a mossy ditch in the upper campsites of Miracle Beach Park.
- Amethyst laccaria (Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis) also from the campsites of Miracle Beach Park. Gills have a lovely lilac-tone.
- Late oyster/green oyster (Sarcomyxa serotina). This later season shroom has shades of grey/green and purple.
- Gills of the late oyster, a creamy pale orange colour.
