Entoloma Hochstetteri

Hello and welcome to The Mushroom Daily! Our first ever post is dedicated to a wonderful little blue mushroom which identified as Entoloma Hochstetteri. This happens to also be the National Mushroom of New Zealand and that's just where I had the pleasure to encounter this little fella. I'm lucky enough that my eyes and brain are trained and seemingly talented to pick out any anomalies in regular patterns. I can easily spot a whale plume while driving down the CA 101 or I can easily spot a deer a mile ahead on the hill on the side of the 280. My wife says I'm good at that. Over the years this has established itself as a talent of mine that I believe I actually have. I attribute this talent to the tasks my grandma, who is a seamstress, would give me. Watch out over there somewhere I dropped a needle, can you find it? I always did. And so my gaze gravitated to this little blue thing in the middle of the moss on the side of a trail.
FInd out more about this little fella by following this link and this link.

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