Azure-blue Web Cap
Description
Cap convex to expanded, Ø 6-10 cm, radially fibrous, matt grey-blue with violet tinge, ochre-brown fading to pale ochre.
Gills bluish to dark brown.
Stem 8-10 x 2 cm, grey-blue, fading to whitish brown, with vague, rusty brown cortinal zone and with a rimmed, 3-4 cm wide, white-yellowish bulb-shaped base. Flesh pale blue to creamy ochre. Smell faint, flour-like.
Spore-print colour rusty brown.
Occurrence
Near deciduous trees (Oak, Beech) in deciduous woods.
Forming ectomycorrhiza.
Status
Vulnerable (Red Data List, ed. 1).