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caricapapaya
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blewit from southern ca
#7944419 - 01/28/08 09:33 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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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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tahoe
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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) |
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looks like a blewit to me, nice find
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Hotnuts
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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: C9XMVHCH]
#7944670 - 01/28/08 10:36 AM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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Yep, that's a blewit for sure.
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snoot
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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: Hotnuts]
#7945213 - 01/28/08 12:51 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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mmm Those taste so good raw on top of lasagna or a salad.
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CureCat
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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) |
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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..
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xmush
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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: CureCat]
#7946465 - 01/28/08 05:43 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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Indeed, blewits make many people violently ill if not cooked.
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greys
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Re: blewit from southern ca [Re: xmush]
#7946507 - 01/28/08 05:52 PM (16 years, 22 days ago) |
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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) |
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> 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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greys
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>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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