It’s really, really, really blue-almost unbelievably blue, saturated in a way more often associated with kids’ markers or mouth-staining candy than with fungi. hochstetteri is a mushroom, and it’s blue.
“I was like, ‘What are you doing here?’” Padamsee says.Į. It was small, just a couple of inches tall, and she thought it seemed out of place. The first time Mahajabeen Padamsee stumbled across Entoloma hochstetteri in a New Zealand forest, she was happily startled.