blewits

(ˈbluːɪts)

(Plants) (functioning as singular) an edible saprotroph agaricaceous fungus, Tricholoma saevum, having a pale brown cap and bluish stalk

[C19: probably based on blue]

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blewits - edible agaric that is pale lilac when young; has a smooth moist cap

Clitocybe nuda

agaric - a saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

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Other popular types include horse mushrooms, trumpet chanterelles, porcini, hedgehog mushrooms, chicken of the woods, saffron milk caps and wood blewits.

Monica's found a real fungi to be with; HIDDEN TREASURE CAPS IN WOODS; Mega mushroom will feed forager Monica for weeks

Tiny, delicate mousserons, firm blewits, super-tasty chanterelles and the exquisitemorelmushrooms are all pushing from the leaf litter to tempt the wandering picker.

Into the woods for mushrooms! Weaver's Shed

Of Muldoon's many deployments of the self-inwoven simile, perhaps the opening lines of "Gathering Mushrooms" may be the most memorable: "The rain comes flapping through the yard/like a tablecloth that she hand-embroidered./My mother has left it on the line./It is sodden with rain." More pertinent here is another example from Quoof, "Blewits," that one might say incarnates the inversion/invasive principle of that form.

Paul Muldoon's carryings on

I've expanded a bit on shiitake production, but actually there are a number of mushrooms of easy culture--oyster mushroom, blewits, king stropharia, and chicken-of-the-woods.

Achieving food independence: Part II: the garden year

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