A common fungus found under tea trees Variable in colour, young fruiting bodies can appear very green. It normally has a glutinous deep metallic blue cap with a brown centre and a viscid metallic blue stalk in wet conditions.

Cap: Up to 35-80 mm., Slightly viscid when moist, dull, convex with a trace of an umbo. Young specimens sometimes beautiful mauve or lavender‑blue. Drying pallid with greyish‑blue tint, often with eucalyptus‑green tones. Older caps creamy‑yellow with faint brownish or greenish hues. Margin slightly inrolled when young
Lamellae: Adnate, sometimes with a trace of decurrence, slightly sinuate, ventricose. Moderately close. Dingy flesh‑tinted, drying pale yellow‑brown to deeper ochre‑brown. Edge concolorous.
Stipe: Up to 100 mm., attenuated upward, rather bulbous below. White, tinged with cap colours (lavender‑blue in youth). Slightly striate, hollow. With remains of a superior cobweb veil, bluish when young.
Context: Pale, watery; in stipe may turn yellowish.
Odour/taste: not distinctive.