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edible agaric that is pale lilac when young

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Heroic Lily Blewit was nominated for our award by her next-door neighbour Joyce Pearson.
Lily Blewit, 81, of Ellison Place, Low Fell, Gateshead, was nominated for the award by her next-door neighbour Joyce Pearson.
Mr Shorten said 1997 was a strange year which began with the summer Field Blewit fungi being found on the south coast in the depths of a February cold snap.
WOOD BLEWIT MUSHROOMS: Mr Renton said: "The French call it Pied Bleu and it is found all over France, in top restaurants.
"For example, with the shell boat, I took what is in real life an eight inch long boat, and blewit up till it looked about thirty feet long."
November: Rose hips, horn of plenty, blueleg, wood blewit
Other popular types include horse mushrooms, trumpet chanterelles, porcini, hedgehog mushrooms, chicken of the woods, saffron milk caps and wood blewits.
Tiny, delicate mousserons, firm blewits, super-tasty chanterelles and the exquisitemorelmushrooms are all pushing from the leaf litter to tempt the wandering picker.
Of Muldoon's many deployments of the self-inwoven simile, perhaps the opening lines of "Gathering Mushrooms" may be the most memorable: "The rain comes flapping through the yard/like a tablecloth that she hand-embroidered./My mother has left it on the line./It is sodden with rain." More pertinent here is another example from Quoof, "Blewits," that one might say incarnates the inversion/invasive principle of that form.
I've expanded a bit on shiitake production, but actually there are a number of mushrooms of easy culture--oyster mushroom, blewits, king stropharia, and chicken-of-the-woods.
I have taken the wise advice of author of Fungi Forays, Daniel Butler, to concentrate on being able to confidently identify three or four different type of fungi as it really can be a mushroom minefield if you don't know your Blewits from your Boletes.
He said: "It was coming through the toilets and a manhole cover blewits top.