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Whole mushroom bruised purple... Is this a Lepiota?!?!
    #5895119 - 07/24/06 05:56 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

This past weekend, I was able to enjoy a wonderful mushroom hunt, camping, and "mountain" biking (mountains in SW Ohio?!?!) excursion at an Ohio State Park. 

During my mushroom foray, I found maybe a little less than 100 chanterelles, mostly bug-ridden of course, some nice clumps of Ramaria stricta, a beautiful scaly blue-green Russula virescens (spotted by my bf), another small red Russula, a  few red and yellow boletes, and a some others I couldn't identify including this dainty beauty...





After ignoring my boyfriend for hours, I searched high and low through Mushrooms Demystified and finally came to a conclusion: I don't know what the heck this mushroom is!!

:crazy2:arrrrrrrrgh :crazy2:


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CAP:  ~2.5 cm, perfectly round and convex, bright white with I'd say tan-colored scales.  Appears slightly striate under scales.  Both scales and cap instantly bruise a dark purple upon handling. The pics do no justice for the color!!  The center of the cap had a tan eye but was not umbonate and !surprise! it bruised purple.

GILLS:  Free, close, bright white, also instantly bruising dark purple when brushed with my fingers.

STALK:  ~7 cm long, .5 cm thick, smooth, white, bruising purple, also had a basal bulb (pretty sure it wasn't a volva)

VEIL:  formed a very thin but complete annulus, bruising purple.  Left a few shaggy remnants on the margin of the cap.  I did not find any younger specimens, so I don't know what the veil would've looked like.

SPOREPRINT: I set it on a printed park map which had a white background, and the next morning I didn't see anything, so either the sporeprint was white, or it hadn't dropped any.

HABITAT:  terrestrial, fairly wet mixed forest in SW Ohio

So my best guess would be a Lepiota.  If that is so, I really want to know what species it is. :confused:

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Re: Whole mushroom bruised purple... Is this a Lepiota?!?! [Re: WoodsCall]
    #5895142 - 07/24/06 06:05 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

The white spore print would be an indicator of a possible Lepiota and it looks like it. Possible Lepiota atrodisca or Lepiota roseifolia? Note the former should bruise redish.


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Re: Whole mushroom bruised purple... Is this a Lepiota?!?! [Re: baycafe]
    #5895211 - 07/24/06 06:30 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

Those are some good guesses, and it's closer in comparison to the L. roseifolia but this one definitely bruises a royal purple.

thanks, tho  :smile:


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Re: Whole mushroom bruised purple... Is this a Lepiota?!?! [Re: WoodsCall]
    #5895238 - 07/24/06 06:41 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I found this:

Leopiota lilacea
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immagine:Lepiota_lilacea.jpg

From my search results of this species, most of the pages are from various European countries and i cannot find any good translations :tongue:


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Re: Whole mushroom bruised purple... Is this a Lepiota?!?! [Re: WoodsCall]
    #5895601 - 07/24/06 08:18 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

It certainly looks and sounds like a Lepiota. The species will be a lot more difficult. I'm afraid that my only good key to the genus requires a microscope.

If you *really* want to know, try contacting Dr Else Vellinga. She's the current authority on the genus Lepiota, and a really nice person.

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Re: Whole mushroom bruised purple... Is this a Lepiota?!?! [Re: ToxicMan]
    #5895628 - 07/24/06 08:24 PM (17 years, 6 months ago)

I suppose getting in contact with this lady for a positive identification would require a sporeprint?  I tossed mine when I left camp Sunday afternoon :P 

I guess I don't *really* want to know that bad, I just figured it might be something rare since it's not ID'ed in the book I own.

Thanks for the advice, ToxicMan  :thumbup:


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