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Tricholomataceae Mushrooms

Tricholomataceae mushrooms on KnowTheSpore, with edibility ratings, identification tips, and safety notes.

Burnt knight with wet chestnut cap notched pale gills and brown lower stem - Burnt Knight | KnowTheSpore

Burnt Knight

Tricholoma ustale

Burnt knight is a brown, wet-sticky, white-spored Tricholoma with notched pale gills that develop brown spots…

POISONOUS
Matsutake mushroom in pine needle litter with a thick solid white stem and a white cap overlaid with flattened brown scales

Matsutake

Tricholoma matsutake

The matsutake is sold by smell. A strong spicy cinnamon and pine scent is what makes it the most valuable…

Choice
Sulphur knight mushroom in oak leaf litter with a bright sulphur yellow cap and slender yellow stem

Sulphur Knight

Tricholoma sulphureum

You will smell this mushroom before you reach it. The sulphur knight carries a strong smell of coal gas or…

POISONOUS
Wood blewit mushroom standing in brown beech leaf litter with a soft lilac violet cap and thick violet stem

Wood Blewit

Lepista nuda

A lilac mushroom in leaf litter stops people walking, and that is the whole problem with the wood blewit. It…

Caution
A yellow knight mushroom with a greenish yellow cap and bright yellow gills growing in sandy soil

Yellow Knight

Tricholoma equestre

Yellow knight is a ringless, yellow-gilled Tricholoma of poor sandy ground under conifers. Fatal French case…

POISONOUS
Small white fool's funnel mushrooms with shallow caps and descending gills in short grass

Fool's Funnel

Clitocybe rivulosa

Fool's funnel is a small whitish grassland mushroom with crowded gills running down a ringless stem. A…

POISONOUS

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