03/Sep/2026, 6:36 PM
Soodla forest, Anija, Harju, Eesti
Mixed (conifer dominant) forest woodland edge grassland (Pilosella sp.), in sandy soil
59°23'14.7"N 25°23'38.1"E
🌡️ 16°C ⛅ Partly sunny 💨 Wind 240° WSW->ENE, 20 km/h
Original Instagram postEntoloma chalybeum
Indigo Pinkgill
- Scientific identification
- Entoloma chalybeum (Pers.) Noordel.
- Family
- Entolomataceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Entoloma
Names across languages
- English: Indigo Pinkgill
- German: Schwarzblauer Rötling
- Finnish: Nokirusokas
- Estonian: Terassinine punalehik
- Russian: Энтолома стальная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-03.
Hymenium
Gills moderately spaced, rather thick; whitish to pale grey when young, sometimes faintly bluish, becoming dirty salmon-pink with maturity
Cap
Convex to broadly convex, often shallowly umbilicate; finely velvety to minutely squamulose; dark steel-blue, blue-black to purplish-brown, sometimes becoming browner with age
Hymenium Attachment
Adnate to slightly emarginate
Stipe
Slender, cylindrical to slightly flattened or longitudinally grooved; steel-blue to blue-black with longitudinal fibres, often paler toward apex; white tomentum at base; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print pale pink to salmon-pink
Ecology
Ecology saprotrophic(?); unimproved nutrient-poor grasslands, moist meadows, heathland and deciduous woodland; solitary, scattered or gregariously; summer to autumn
Edibility
Inedible, potentially poisonous
Fruit body
Fruit body small; stipe ~3–7 cm long and ~0.2–0.5 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~1.5–5 cm
Flesh
Grey-blue to pale bluish, thin, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Spores heterodiametrical, angular with 5–9 facets, ~8.5–12.5 × 6–8.5 µm; basidia 4-spored; cheilocystidia cylindrical to slender-clavate; pileipellis transitional between cutis and trichoderm; clamp connections absent
Overview
Dark steel-blue pinkgill with a finely velvety cap
1982). Nordic Jl Bot. 2(2): 162.
Field encounters
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