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Violet webcap with a bulbous base

Cortinarius sp. Genus

High for genus confidence TM0167 20 August 2026 · 11:54 21 frames
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Angles captured. Eleven field frames with the height gauge, seven bench frames including gills and the excavated base, and the spore print on white and dark card.

Morphology

Cap 4–6 cm, violet to grey-lilac, smooth, convex flattening with age. Gills pale grey-violet, close, sinuate. Stipe pale violet, dry, ending in a distinctly bulbous base dug out whole at the bench. Spore print rusty orange-brown, dense, radially patterned — reading bright ochre against the dark card.

Habitat & substrate

Litter on a mossy slope under hemlock and oak, several fruitbodies over a few metres.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

The print ends the violet argument for this collection: rusty brown means webcap. The blewit (pale pink print), Laccaria ochropurpurea (white), and violet Entoloma (salmon) all fall away. The bulbous — possibly rimmed — base points within the genus toward the Phlegmacium side, but the genus is as far as the evidence goes.

Notes

The strongest violet record in the guide — habit, gills, excavated base and a dense print, all from one collection. What every entry in the violet series is waiting for.

Found at Walker Pond Rd area, Sturbridge, MA on Thursday, 20 August 2026 at 11:54. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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