Tricholoma imbricatum

matt knight

Names across languages

From the latest record: 2024-10-19.

Gills, crowded, pale to light brown, sometimes with a slightly pinkish hue, not staining when bruised

Convex to broadly convex, becoming flat or slightly depressed with age, with dark brown, fibrous scales, margin wavy, inrolled when young

Adnexed to free

Cylindrical, firm, brown to reddish-brown, with a fibrillose surface, base slightly swollen, basal mycelium white

Spore print white

Mycorrhizal with coniferous trees (pines), growing alone, scattered, gregariously, late summer to autumn

Reported edible, but has bitter taste and tough texture

Fruit body medium-sized, stipe 3–8 cm long, 1–2.5 cm thick

Cap 5–10 cm in diameter

KOH negative or red on cap surface.

Odour sweetish, slightly mealy, or not distinctive

Taste not distinctive, or slightly bitter and farinaceous

Spores broadly ellipsoid or occasionally subglobose, smooth, 4–8 x 4–6 µm, hyaline in KOH, inamyloid, basidia 4-spored

Medium-sized mushroom with a fibrous, scaly brown cap and a bitter taste

1871). Führ. Pilzk. (Zerbst): 133.

Soodla jõgi, Harjumaa, Estonia

Spruce-pine-juniper-birch heath, Vaccinum bushes, in moss

59°23'12.1"N 25°23'38.2"E

🔆 Clear sky, sunny spot