Tricholome blue Foot

The blue foot ( Rhodopaxillus nudus , now Lepista nuda ) is a Champignon Basidiomycète of the family of the Tricholomataceae.

One finds it in the wood of Feuillu S or Conifère S, on plants in decomposition (branches, brushwood and sheets or needles). In many troops, it can sometimes form round witch.

Description

Foot : Robust, of color lilac clear or purplished with lilac gray, 4 to 9 cm by 1 with 3cm, fibrous, a little bulbous towards the base, striped fibrillae blanchâtres with silver plated on purple bottom.
Hat : Fleshy, 6-10 even 15 cm, convex then plane with a light depression, with rolled up margin, smooth and wet, of color lilac with blue-purplished. Nuances of brown especially in the center extending in the age. The margin is never striated.
Blades : Unequal, tight, in inserted plates and lamellules, of the same color (but sharper) than the hat, becoming brown tern in the age.
Flesh : To tend, purplished white, fruity perfume.
Sporée : Rose

Edibility

The blue foot is edible required for its tender and scented flesh. Attention, it is sometimes known as that this mushroom must be cooked a long time. Some even affirm that it is toxic in a grown state, and could sometimes cause severe reactions, even cooked.

Confusions

With others let us champigons blue, in particular the purple Pied, other excel edible; the sordid Tricholome spindlier and in a less measurement the sinister Tricholome. All these mushrooms are edible.

It can be also confused with the purple Cortinaire, which is much darker, and which presents remainders of cortine. This one as almost all the cortinaires is to be rejected.

Close species

Lepista saeva , the purple Foot;

Lepista nebularis , the nebulous Clitocybe.

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