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| Record Summary | under Beech |
| Found as | Fruitbody |
| Date | 24 September 2008 |
| Associated organism | Fagus sylvatica |
| OS grid ref | OSGR: SU78 |
| Lat/Lon | 51° 30’ N, 0° 50’ W |
| Vice County | Oxon, VC no: 23 |
| Country | England |
| Voucher | 24 Sep 2008[E] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) |
Notes:
Cap sticky, dirty whitish with pale buff areas, young with distinct lilaceous-bluish tinge which doesn’t photograph well. Cuticle thick, easily peeled off, bright red with KOH.
Stipe: white tinged vinaceous grey bruising "vinaceous grey" by collapse of tomentum. Tapering upwards from large, marginate basal bulb which is whiter than stipe and often patchily pale buff; bulb but not stipe basal bulb strongly bright purple with KOH.
Flesh: strongly lilac in stem cortex, unchanged (very pale orange) with KOH.
Veil white.
Gills: lilac at first, crowded.
Taste: mild. Cuticle: mild.
Spore print: slightly dark BFF:fulvous
This differs from typical C. calochrous var. parvus in the blue stipe flesh and faint blue cap tinges. This became more evident as time passed and after 4 days a cap left lying around after giving spore prints was as blue as Inocybe geophylla.
Spores: amygdaliform, very slightly rough on outline under x100 obj, 8-10/5-5.5µm
[ 'BFF' = British Fungus Flora colour chart ]The following literature was used to identify this find:
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