The sort of Plums and Custard you can’t eat

Looking back in my photo archive of curious and wonderful fungi I find photographs of Tricholomopsis rutilans, Plums and Custard:

According to my guidebooks they form very photogenic clumps. It’s a shame I haven’t found any photogenic ones; just single, old or half-eaten ones. This one was in Pullabrook Woods on Dartmoor:

I love their purple and yellow colour scheme.

These were in the grounds of Exeter University:

It’s a shame they’re not edible; at least not to humans.

Here it is in Coloured Figures of English Fungi or Mushrooms by James Sowerby from 1797

What a fabulous fungus.