Identify type of Fungi

[Alan Beastall]

Any name for this blue/purple fungi found in a Beech tree woodland. Could it be a Wood Blewit?

 

Thanks, Alan

 

 

[Allan Bell]

Wood Blewit cap is brown. Only the gill are intense bluish-purple when young.

 

Allan

 

[geogphotos]

Could be:

 

Amethyst Deceiver, Laccaria laccata

[Alan Beastall]

Thanks Alan and the man from geophotos. I shall go with Amethst Deceiver.

 

Alan

 

 

[MizBrown]

1 hour ago, Alan Beastall said:

Thanks Alan and the man from geophotos. I shall go with Amethst Deceiver.

 

Alan

 

 

 

Check this Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laccaria_amethystina

 

[Alan Beastall]

Thanks Mizbrown, I think you are correct.

Alan

[Allan Bell]

12 hours ago, Alan Beastall said:

Thanks Mizbrown, I think you are correct.

Alan

 

Laccaria amethysyea. (Amethist Deceiver) Cap is deep purple or lilac when wet, drying to a pale pinkish-lilac.

 

That is what caught me out. The image I have in my book is the pinkish-lilac and not purple. It only mentioned purple in the description.

 

Allan

 

[Nigel Kirby]

Have you tried using "Google Lens App" on your phone when I use it on your photo on my mac it come up withLaccaria amethystina.

Nigel

[MizBrown]

46 minutes ago, Nigel Kirby said:

Have you tried using "Google Lens App" on your phone when I use it on your photo on my mac it come up withLaccaria amethystina.

Nigel

 

I always cross check  Seek and Lens results with Google and/or Wikipedia, which seems to have some people who are fungus enthusiasts putting in a lot of useful information.    Seek and Google Lens apps are worth having, but not absolutely accurate. 

 

The ideal would be two or more different programs that compared to two or more different visual databases.   Given that Alamy has mis-identifications of Red Tailed Hawks and Google does image sweeps here,  ideally check any IDs against state or country sites done by state biologists for the type of organism if possible.   I had one damselfly ID'ed by a state dragonfly and damselfly site.

 

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