These amazing edible purple mushrooms

Violet mushrooms have a very interesting exotic appearance, but are they edible? There are several purple macromycetes that can be safely eaten.

Spiderweb purple

This macromycete is also called an eagle. This purple mushroom has a scaly fibrous cap with a diameter of up to 12 cm. At first it is hemispherical, and then convex or convex-protuberant with drooping wavy edges. Its color is dark purple. Macromycete plates are rare, thick and wide, with a bluish cobweb coverlet, which eventually disappears. At first they are dark purple, and then with a rusty bloom. The flesh of the fungus is brittle, soft, at first bluish, and then whitish. Leg clavate, first continuous, and later hollow. At the top it is finely scaly, and below with fibrous bands.

Violet mushrooms are very interesting, but spiderweb is extremely rare. It can be found in August-September in coniferous and deciduous forests. He prefers pine forests and wet places. Spiderweb purple is edible. Macromycete is listed in the Red Book. There are purple mushrooms of the same kind with which it is possible to confuse the basin. All of them are inedible or poisonous, but have an unpleasant smell, which helps to differentiate them from the web of purple.

The lavender series

This macromycete is also called a bluish, or a nude lepist. These purple mushrooms are conditionally edible (4th category). The cap of macromycete is hemispherical, with wrapped edges, later convex-prostrate, fleshy and dense. Diameter - up to 15 cm. First, the hat is purple, and then it changes the shade to light purple or reddish-brown. Macromycete plates are thin, frequent, loose, wide. At first they are purple, and then turn pale or become ocher-lilac. Leg cylindrical, clavate, smooth, even, fibrous, pale violet. Flesh with a fruity aroma, fleshy, lilac or ocher-cream.

In August-December (before frosts), this purple mushroom should be found in coniferous (spruce, pine) and mixed (spruce, oak) forest massifs. You can see his photo in this article. Macromycetes can be found in orchards, on clearings and fringes, on forest litter. It grows in rows or rings. Fructifies annually. Often it is confused with a smoky govorushkoy. At an early age, the fungus is a bit like the above-described cobweb purple.

Pizza purple

These purple mushrooms have a rather exotic appearance. The pepper refers to conditionally edible macromycetes of low quality. Fruit bodies of these fungi have a diameter of not more than 4 cm. They are sessile, globose, then urn-shaped with wrapped edges, then cup-shaped or saucer-shaped, and later - prostrate. Fruit bodies are slightly mealy. Their edges are wavy or solid. Outside, the mushrooms are slightly lighter. At first they are purple, light violet or purple, but eventually fade and become grayish-beige or whitish.

The inner surface of macromycete is darker and smoother, purple. With age, it becomes black and brown. Flesh is light brown, brittle, in some places translucent, without pronounced taste and smell. These violet mushrooms are harvested in the spring-summer period in coniferous and mixed forest forests. They can be found on fireplaces, on fire, on rotten wood. These macromycetes grow in groups.