I found this exquisite little purple toadstool on my lunchtime walk in Durham today, growing beside the footpath near Blaid's Wood to the south of the city. I'm pretty sure it's a violet webcap Cortinarius violaceus (unless anyone out there knows better???). Without doubt the most intensely purple pigmented toadstool I've ever seen. It doesn't have much of a 'web' but what remains of it is the white patch on the flank of the cap and the wispy white threads around its rim.
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