Entoloma chalybaeum var. lazulinum (Fr.) Noordel. |
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Entolomataceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Pluteales/Entolomataceae synonyms: Leptonia lazulina, Entoloma chalybaeum-lazulinum, Rhodophyllus lazulinus, Entoloma lazulinum, Rhodophyllus cyanulus ss.Lge
edibility : poisonous
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The cap is steel blue to blue black; its margin is striate when moist. The cap surface is smooth, not viscid nor sticky. The flesh is dark blue, unchanging; the odour is not distinctive; its texture is fibrous. The gills are greyish to blue then pink, adnate, distant . The spore print is pink. This species is saprophytic. It grows on the ground, in meadows, parks and heaths, on a rather calcareous soil. The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : cap and stem blueish to blackish-blue; gills blueish Entoloma chalybaeum var. lazulinum is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
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