Lepista sordida

Scientific classification

Kingdom:        Fungi

Division:          Basidiomycota

Class:   Basidiomycetes

Order: Agaricales

Family:            Tricholomataceae

Genus: Lepista

Species:           L. sordida

Binomial name           Lepista sordida

(Schumach.) Singer

Lepista sordida is a species of mushroom found across the Northern Hemisphere. It is known to form fairy rings.

location: Europe

edibility: Edible

fungus colour: Violet or purple, Brown

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Convex to shield shaped

flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)

spore colour: Pink

habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground, Grows on plant material/manure

Lepista sordida (Fr.) Sing. syn. Tricholoma sordidum (Fr.) Kummer Fleischbrauner Rötelritterling Szürkéslila pereszke (tölcsérpereszke). Cap 3–8cm across, convex becoming flattened, depressed or slightly umbonate, often wavy, lilac to lilac-brown, fading with age.

Stem 40–60´5–8mm, concolorous with cap, fibrous, often slightly thickened at base. Flesh greyish tinged with lilac. Taste mild, smell scented. Gills lilac fading or becoming lilac-brown with age. Spore print pale, greyish-lilac. Spores elliptic, minutely roughened, 6–7 x 3.5–4um.

Habitat woodland, often around piles of rotting vegetation. Season summer to late autumn. Uncommon. Edible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Found In Europe.