Cortinarius delibutus

bluegill webcap

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-12.

Gills, moderately spaced to distant, at first bluish, becoming buff tinged with violet as the spores mature

Initially convex, becoming broadly convex to flat with age, smooth and viscid when wet, pale yellow, slight brown tint in the center

Adnate to slightly emarginate

Finely fibrillose, clavate at base, surface sticky, covered with yellowish veil remnants that stain rust-brown once spores begin to fall

Spore print rusty-brown

Mycorrhizal, with birch, beech and spruce, found in damp mixed woodlands, autumn

Inedible, not recommended for consumption due to potential confusion with toxic species

Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 5-9 cm long and 3-6 mm thick

Cap 3–7 cm in diameter

Odour faintly earthy or indistinct

Taste reported to be mild

Spores ellipsoid to subspherical, coarsely verrucose, 7-9.5 x 6-7µm, basidia 4-spored

A medium-sized mycorrhizal mushroom with a slimy, pale yellow cap

1838). Epicr. Syst. Mycol. (Upsaliae): 276 (’1836-1838′).

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Mixed (pine-spruce-birch) woodland, near birches, in grassy moss

59°23'12.2"N 25°23'34.1"E

🔆 Occasional sun, partial cloudy, open spot