Identification
Lilac to violet cap, gills and stem — all tinted; the smell is characteristic (orange blossom/anise). In leaf litter and compost-rich ground.
Edibility — conditional
Edible cooked; some people react to it raw. The lilac color fades with age — young fruit bodies are clearest.
How not to confuse it
- Deadly webcaps can share the violet shade: webcaps show a rusty spore print and cortina remnants — blewit's print is pale pink.
- Any violet "blewit" with rusty spores = discard.