Indigo Pinkgill

Indigo Pinkgill - Entoloma chalybaeum var. chalybaeum

Description

The caps are a dark steely or indigo blue and finely downy or scurfy.  Gills are white, with a sligt blue tinge, maturing to a salmony pink.  The stipe is fibrillose with blue fibrils over a white ground.

Similar Species

There are several other dark-blue species of Entoloma.

Identification difficulty

microscope

Recording advice

Identification is very difficult, requiring microscopic examination.  If you have not done this or if the specimen has not been examined by an expert, please submit your record as genus only (Entoloma)

Habitat

Unimproved grassland and heath; deciduous woodland

When to see it

Summer and autumn.

VC55 Status

Infrequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.

Further Information

https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/entoloma-chalybaeum.php

In the image below, the red box means that the identification is tentative and not confirmed microscopically.  Because of the importance of Entoloma as indicators of conservation-value grasslands, we have retained it as an example of this group of species.

Leicestershire & Rutland Map

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