Blewit

Clitocybe nuda

Opens Oct 1565d out

Open

Oct 15 – Dec 31

Best

Nov

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today

Late-autumn saprobic fruiting in cooling leaf litter and compost; frost-tolerant into early winter.

signal · Antecedent rainfall and air/soil temperature. (assumed)

Plate No. 017 · Finley & Bohlman

Tread lightly

The mushroom is only the fruit, but raking the duff to find them tears the mycelial mat that fruits year after year. Cut what's up, leave the ground undisturbed, and never strip a patch.

The read

Lavender hue; late fall in rich leaf litter and compost. Earthy.

What we watch: live feeds

Rainfall Open-Meteo ↗

The Kit

what a forager carries

Gear: Opinel No.08 mushroom knifeREI ↗Nisaku hori-hori trowel-knifeAmazon ↗PNWBUSHCRAFT waxed-canvas pouchmade in WAmakerExcalibur 9-tray dehydratorAmazon ↗
Wear: Xtratuf Legacy bootsREI ↗Grundéns Neptune jacketBackcountry ↗
Reading: All That the Rain Promises and MoreAroraBookshop.org ↗Mushrooms of the Pacific NorthwestTrudell & AmmiratiBookshop.org ↗Fruits of the ForestWinklerBookshop.org ↗

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Sources

What informs Blewit in particular. The shared feeds it reads (tides, weather, water temp) are the live feeds above.

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