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Photo © Ken-ichi Ueda some rights reserved
Salt Point State Park (Google, OSM)
38.5682983398, -123.3079986572
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Thanks to April for the ID, though apparently "bloxamii" is a misspelling of "bloxami." I wonder how we'll resolve this...

Apr. 03, 2008 08:46:25 -0700
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Bloxam's Entoloma - Photo (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
kueda's ID: Bloxam's Entoloma (Entoloma bloxamii)
Posted by kueda about 5 years ago (Flag)
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Ken, given that I am a newbie to fungi, I would have called this a blewit. Please enlighten me.

Posted by leslie_flint 7 months ago (Flag)
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Leslie, it is indeed quite blewit-like. Probably the clearest difference is that Entoloma has white gills, which blewits almost always have at least somewhat purple-ish gills. There's usually not too much contrast between gill color and cap color in blewits either, whereas you can see a pretty stark contrast here. I don't remember what Entoloma smells like, but blewits usually (not always) smell faintly of orange juice. I don't think there's another mushroom around here that has that odor.

Posted by kueda 7 months ago (Flag)
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Excellent. Good to know; this winter I will do a lot more smelling!

Posted by leslie_flint 7 months ago (Flag)
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Bloxam's Entoloma - Photo (c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
kueda's ID: Bloxam's Entoloma (Entoloma bloxamii)

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