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

synonyms: Tricolome brun et blanc, Weissbrauner Ritterling
Tricholoma albobrunneum Mushroom
Ref No: 9518
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location: North America
edibility: Inedible
fungus colour: White to cream, Brown
normal size: 5-15cm
cap type: Conical or nearly so
stem type: Ring on stem
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 albobrunneum (Pers. ex Fr.) Kummer Weissbrauner Ritterling Tricolome brun et blanc. Cap 5–8cm across, conico-convex, reddish-brown and covered in fine innate radiating fibrils, greasy or viscid. Stem 60–80 x 10–15mm, whitish above the distinctive ring zone but reddish brown below remaining slightly scaly in the upper portion. Flesh white tinged brownish below the cap cuticle and towards the stem base. Smell faintly mealy. Gills white, reddish-brown with age. Spore print white. Spores broadly elliptical, 5 x 3–4um. Habitat with conifers. Season autumn. Rare. Edible – poor and indigestible. (Never eat any mushroom until you are certain it is edible as many are poisonous and some are deadly poisonous.) Distribution, America and Europe.

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