Wood blewit

Lepista spp.

mushroom

A late-season mushroom with a lilac cap and purple gills, fragrant, sold at markets in autumn and grown in small quantities.

Origin

Europe

Season (United States)

October to December

Preparation

Always well cooked: raw, it upsets the stomach. Beginners confuse it with violet webcaps, darker, which often keep under the cap the remains of a cobweb-like veil, the cortina. If you pick it yourself, have the mushroom checked by a pharmacist or a mycological society before eating it.

Molecules

Mushroom beta-glucansIn small amounts, not counted Ergothioneine

Did you know?

It grows late, until the first frosts, in dead leaves and compost.