Description ⁴

CAP 5-9 cm, broadly convex, cream to dingy cream with a tint of blue, especially over margin, felty, moist to touch but not viscid, bald, coarsely cracked with areolate areas, older caps may develop fibrillose scales; flesh dingy cream color tinted bluish green, bruising bluish-gray to blue-green but soon fading. ODOR strong disagreeable odor of rancid meal. TASTE mild at first but soon unpleasant. GILLS broadly adnate to short decurrent, close to subdistant or in age distant, bluish green. STEM 2.5-5 x 1.5-2.5 cm, narrowing abruptly at base; bluish-green to dingy light brown, nearly cream at top; dry, pruinose at top, the rest with appressed fibrils, usually twisted somewhat, base with numerous white rhizomorphs. IW.

SIMILAR
Hygrophorus caeruleus is a rare montane species recognized by a bluish-green to bluish-grey color, unpleasant odor, and spring fruiting habit. Its stature is suggestive of Tricholoma or Russula, but the gills are not notched, as is often the case in Tricholoma, nor is the stipe brittle or breaks cleanly as in Russula. Unrelated, similar colored taxa include Clitocybe odora, Stropharia aeruginosa, Stropharia cyanea, and Entoloma bloxami. Clitocybe odora differs in its less robust stature, whitish stipe, and pleasant anise odor, while Stropharia aeruginosa and Stropharia cyanea have viscid caps, brownish gills in age, and lack a strong odor. Entoloma bloxami has a dark-blue cap and sometimes a bluish-tinged stipe. It occurs primarily in coastal forests in the fall and winter and can be distinguished by a pinkish spore print.

http://www.svims.ca/council/Hygrop.htm
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Hygrophorus_caeruleus.html

Summary ⁵

Hygrophorus caeruleus is a rare species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. Found in the western United States, the mushroom is characterized by its stout fruit body including blue-tinted cap margin and stipe, blue-grey to bluish green gills, and odor of rancid meal.

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1. (c) noah_siegel, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC-SA), enviado por noah_siegel
2. (c) Nils N, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-NC), enviado por Nils N
3. (c) Alan Rockefeller, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY), enviado por Alan Rockefeller
4. (c) W.Coyote, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA)
5. Adaptado por W.Coyote de uma obra de (c) Wikipedia, alguns direitos reservados (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophorus_caeruleus

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