Leucopaxillus tricolor

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-08-17.

Gills, crowded, cream to pale yellow, staining reddish-brown or rust with age or damage

Convex to flat with a slightly depressed center, yellowish-brown to rusty-brown, often with reddish or orange tints, smooth and dry

Adnate to slightly decurrent

Stout, swollen in the middle, dry, bald, white, with prominent and copious white basal mycelium

Spore print white

Saprobic, decomposing the litter of hardwoods, growing gregariously, summer and autumn

Inedible, may cause gastrointestinal upset

Fruit body medium to large, stipe 3–6 cm long, 2–4 cm thick

Cap 8–15 cm in diameter

Odour strong and foul, reminiscent of coal tar

Cap surface grayish to dull red with KOH

Spores ellipsoid to subamygdaliform (spines under 0.5 µm), 6–8 x 4–4.5 µm, amyloid, basidia 4-spored, cheilocystidia 35–75 x 2–3 µm

Large, robust mushroom with a distinctive rusty-brown cap and yellowish gills

1926). Botaniste 17(1-4): 135.

Rannaküla, Läänemaa, Estonia

Coniferous forest, in moss, within nearby spruce litter

59°13'47.3"N 23°40'43.6"E

🔆 Evening sun, clear sky, deep forest shade