Pretty In Purple - Blewit Mushrooms 💙🍄🌀

The first time that I found one of these beautiful mushrooms last year, I was smitten! The color is so different from all other mushrooms that I have seen.

They were growing under some rotting hay bales at the edge of my garden. Later in the spring when I was preparing my raised beds I found some growing in between the sections in the bales. I put them on top of the raised beds and actually found a few of them growing there this fall.

Here they are next to some oyster mushrooms that I found.

So beautiful and tasty! However I must post the obligatory fungi warning:
THIS POST IS NOT INTENDED FOR FORAGING PURPOSES AND TO USE IT FOR THOSE PURPOSES WOULD BE DANGEROUS. DO NOT HUNT WILD MUSHROOMS WITHOUT RELYING ON A COMBINATION OF PROFESSIONAL FIELD GUIDES, IN PERSON PROFESSIONAL GUIDANCE, OR IN PERSON GUIDANCE BY SOMEONE TRUSTWORTHY WHO HAS COPIOUS LOCAL, SPECIALIZED MUSHROOM HUNTING EXPERIENCE. FAILURE TO DO SO CAN RESULT IN GRIEVOUS PERSONAL HARM OR DEATH.
Thank you to @dber for this thorough mushroom warning.

Thanks for stopping by!