● Species profile
Blewit
Lepista nuda
Photo: Jimmie Veitch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
⚠ Always cook before eating. Raw, this mushroom can make people sick.
WildEvidence: Limited
A lilac-tinted mushroom that shows up in leaf litter and compost late in the season. Purple Cortinarius species look similar, so confirm a pale pink spore print, not rusty brown. Always cook it; raw blewits upset the stomach.
Shroomer Score#35 of 50 species
2.4Medicinal Value · 30%1/5
Edibility · 20%4/5
Easy to Identify · 20%2/5
Easy to Grow · 15%2/5
Sustainability · 15%4/5
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