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common name(s) : Matt Knight
edibility : discard
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The cap is dull brown to red-brown, darker at the centre, sometimes with an olive tinge, conical-campanulate then convex, with a broad umbo; its margin is smooth, inrolled for a long time. The cap surface is with fine radiating scaly fibrils to almost smooth, dry. The stem is white at the apex but concolorous with cap below, turning brown when manipulated, tapering towards base or almost spindle-shaped, full then hollow with age, without ring nor ring zone. The flesh is white, unchanging; its taste is mild to slightly bitter; the odour is faint, grassy, mealy or of mushroom; its texture is fibrous. The gills are whitish, later spotted with pink to rusty-brown, emarginate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, sometimes also with broad-leaved trees, on a rather acid or neutral soil, mostly with pines, sometimes also with larch, spruce, poplar, evergreen oak. The fruiting period takes place from September to November.
Chemical tests : none. Distinctive features : reddish-brown cap, smooth then felty-scaly; stem white at the apex, concolorous to cap below; mild to bitter taste; with pines Tricholoma imbricatum is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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