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Offlinecaricapapaya
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blewit from southern ca
    #7944419 - 01/28/08 09:33 AM (16 years, 22 days ago)

I was just out looking over the back fence, in the southernmost part of california, and I noticed something slightly shiny and purple springing up:









These were found in mixed leaf litter in a small field used for sheep and horses, under a tree in the shade

Color: entire mushroom, stem, and gills light purple/lavander
spores: tried to get one, but it was too dry, none dropped
cap was about 4" across and stem was about 4"long

I am thinking it is Lepista nuda (blewit), I smelled it, because I have read they can smell like frozen orange juice, but I think it was too dry.

I tore the stem in half and wrapped both pieces in soaked construction paper and I am starting to see mycelium peak through.

How do these taste? we have been getting more rain, and I am expecting I might see sopme more, fresher specimens.

thanks

carica


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: caricapapaya]
    #7944469 - 01/28/08 09:44 AM (16 years, 22 days ago)

it does look like a blewit. Curecat likes them.
ar and cc will know for sure and cc can tell you how to cook it up


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: tahoe]
    #7944558 - 01/28/08 10:11 AM (16 years, 22 days ago)

looks like a blewit to me, nice find


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: C9XMVHCH]
    #7944670 - 01/28/08 10:36 AM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Yep, that's a blewit for sure.

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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: Hotnuts]
    #7945213 - 01/28/08 12:51 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

mmm Those taste so good raw on top of lasagna or a salad.


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: caricapapaya]
    #7945327 - 01/28/08 01:19 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Yep. Lepista nuda is everywhere right about now.

I like to saute them for a long time with garlic and onion, butter and olive oil and whatever seasonings you like, and then add a dash of worchestire sauce and some red or white wine and let that deglaze. Throw that over some steak- MMMM!!!!


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: snoot]
    #7945336 - 01/28/08 01:21 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Quote:

snoot said:
mmm Those taste so good raw on top of lasagna or a salad.



Can't say I'm a fan of raw mushrooms.. :argh:


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: CureCat]
    #7946465 - 01/28/08 05:43 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Indeed, blewits make many people violently ill if not cooked.


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: xmush]
    #7946507 - 01/28/08 05:52 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

Blewits are riddled with bacteria and raw contain a cyanide like compound. do not eat this mushroom raw.
Also they are a favorite home for fungal gnats to lay eggs.


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: greys]
    #7947107 - 01/28/08 07:30 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

> Blewits are riddled with bacteria

Are you sure they have bacteria before they start to rot?

> and raw contain a cyanide like compound.

My google search for blewit cyanide didn't turn up anything, do you have a reference for that?

> Also they are a favorite home for fungal gnats to lay eggs.

Yes they are.


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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: Alan Rockefeller]
    #7947547 - 01/28/08 08:32 PM (16 years, 22 days ago)

>Blewits are riddled with bacteria
i think every time ive cloned them on agar ive gotten a yellow rod shaped bacterial contamination. like instantly. my control dishes generally stayed clean.

> and raw they contain a cyanide like compound

theres a book that i dont own, called Handbook of mushroom poisoning:
Diagnosis and Treatment by David Spuerk and Barry Rumack from 1994
there was a paragraph or so about this. i found it again (its been a year or so since i read it) by googling cyanide found in lepista nuda
there was also a BAMS post about cooking/drying lepista nuda to get rid of this chemical.

ive literally taken a shop vac to the gills to get nats and eggs out.


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