Tricholoma myomyces    (Pers.:Fr.) Lange 

common name(s) : Mousy Tricholoma 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae/Tricholomateae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Agaricus myomyces)  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of Tricholoma myomyces
photo gallery of Tricholoma myomyces potential confusions with Tricholoma myomyces toxicity of Tricholoma myomyces genus Tricholoma  

The cap is mouse-grey to grey-brown, convex then expanded, with or without broad central umbo; its margin is smooth. The cap surface is woolly, with radiating fibrils, downy-felty, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is white, silky-fibrillose, with some cortina remnants.

The flesh is white to grey, unchanging; its taste is faint, pleasant; the odour is faint, slightly mealy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white, emarginate, fairly crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, or along these, in the grass, sometimes also with broad leaved trees, on a rather calcareous soil, with pine and fir.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 4 and 8 cm)
  height of stem approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 11 mm (between 10 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : fibrillose-woolly mouse grey cap; white, silky-fibrillose stem, with cortina remnants; white gills; white flesh with a faint odour; with conifers

Tricholoma myomyces is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tricholoma myomyces in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tricholoma myomyces in the forest of Rambouillet



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