Wood Blewit in Orenburg Oblast: the week ahead

Collybia nuda

The map below is built from the measurement network. A 2.5 km grid with a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

Today

Wood BlewitEdible only after thorough cooking
Quiet

confidence 31%

Flush phase

  1. Quiet
  2. Starting
  3. Building
  4. Peak
  5. Fading

Updated 17 September 2026, 11:22 BST

7 days

Index, day by day

Week's best 36on Fridayaverage 34by the weekend steady

Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».

  1. Today3517 Sept
  2. Fri3618 Sept
  3. Sat3619 Sept
  4. Sun3620 Sept
  5. Mon3421 Sept
  6. Tue3222 Sept
  7. Wed3123 Sept

Map

Where to look: wood blewit

A field over the measurement network. The colour here is for the leading species at each point, not for this one; a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

About the species. Edible when correctly identified and thoroughly cooked; do not eat it raw. Several violet webcaps can look similar, and some Cortinarius species are seriously poisonous. Rusty-brown spore deposits or a cobweb-like veil are warning signs, but beginners should not use the absence of those features as proof that a mushroom is a Blewit.

Wood Blewit in Orenburg Oblast: where to look

Wood Blewit — botanical illustration

Wood Blewit: the species in brief

How to tell it

Fresh specimens are violet to lilac across the cap, gills and stem, fading towards buff or brown with age. The spore print is pale rather than rusty brown. The smell is often sweet or fruity.

Where it grows

In leaf litter in broadleaved and mixed woodland, hedgerows, parks and piles of decaying leaves.

In the kitchen

Cook thoroughly. It can be fried, stewed or preserved; much of the violet colour fades during cooking.

Nutrition

Low in calories. It is valued mainly for its late season and abundance.

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What else is out here now

The other species in this region, by today's index.

Wood Blewit in neighbouring regions

A regional boundary means nothing to a mushroom, and the next region is sometimes closer than the far side of your own. The index is for today.