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Tricholoma ustaloides.   Click a photo to enlarge it.   back to list

synonyms: Kastanienbrauner Ritterling
Tricholoma ustaloides Mushroom
Ref No: 9578
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location: Europe
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Convex to shield shaped
flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy), Mushroom slimy or sticky
spore colour: White, cream or yellowish
habitat: Grows in woods, Grows on the ground

Tricholoma ustaloides Romagn. Kastanienbrauner Ritterling. Cap 4–9cm across, hemispherical to convex, chestnut brown, paler towards the inrolled margin, viscid. Stem 60–100 x 8–15mm, white at the apex, rusty-brown and speckled towards the base; a fragile and very short-lived cortina is sometimes present near the top of the stem in young specimens. Flesh white. Taste and smell strongly of meal. Gills whitish becoming spotted with rust. Spore print white. Spores 6–7 x 4–5um. Habitat deciduous woods. Season autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Found In Europe.

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