Tricholoma batschii Mort. Chr. & Noordel. |
The cap is chestnut to dark reddish-brown, convex then expanded, sometimes depressed; its margin is smooth, inrolled for a long time. The cap surface is smooth, rather viscid, especially in damp weather, shiny when dry. The stem is full, cylindrical, two-coloured: white at the apex, reddish brown below, with a circle, often viscid, acting as a membranous ring (in the youth) or ring zone, clearly marking the separation between the two colours of the stem. The flesh is white, sometimes a bit reddish, unchanging; its taste is bitter; the odour is mealy in fresh specimens, or of watermelon; its texture is fibrous. The gills are white then dotted with rusty-brown with age, emarginate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, mostly with scots pines. The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Distinctive features : reddish-brown cap, slightly viscid to shiny; stem with ring zone clearly separating the white top of the stem from the reddish-brown part below; flesh with bitter taste; mealy odour when fresh; white gills, later spotted with reddish-brown dots; with Scots pines on calcareous soil Tricholoma batschii is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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