Tricholoma inamoenum    (Fr.:Fr.) Gillet 

common name(s) : Gassy Knight 

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

edibility : poisonous

potential confusions with Tricholoma inamoenum toxicity of Tricholoma inamoenum genus Tricholoma  

The cap is dirty white, ochre-cream to pale brown, convex then expanded, with or without broad central umbo; its margin is smooth, thin. The cap surface is smooth, matt, finely downy.

The stem is full, whitish to cream, cylindrical and sometimes rooting, without ring nor ring zone.

The flesh is white, thin, unchanging; its taste is mild, of cabbage; the odour is unpleasant, of carbide, jasmine or gas tar; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are white to slightly yellow, emarginate to adnate, distant (nb of gills per 90° ~ 16 ). The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, in the mountains, with spruce, blueberries.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 5 cm (between 3 and 6 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 6 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 9 mm (between 5 and 15 mm)

Distinctive features : Cap and stem dirty-white to ochraceous cream; distant gills, concolorous with cap; strong unpleasant odour of carbide (similar to the sulphur Tricholoma); in the mountains, with spruce

Tricholoma inamoenum is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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