I consider Pulcherricium caeruleum (pull-chair-ISS-ee-um sa-RULE-ee-um) to be the most beautiful of the corticioid fungi (although Phanerochaete chrysorhizon could give it a run for its money in a fungal beauty pageant... [You may begin singing "Ohhhhh, here she comes,... Miss Corticioid]). Pulcherricium means "most beautiful" and caeruleum means blue. Pictures do not really do it justice at all. In real life it looks like someone coated a stick with blue velvet. The color shown here is pretty close to its natural color, although this specimen (from western North Carolina) is a bit darker than the above specimen (from central Missouri). Those are the only places I've ever seen it, but I believe it's more widespread than that. Have you seen it in your area?