Tricholoma colossus

Tricholoma colossus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Tricholoma
Species: T. colossus
Binomial name
Tricholoma colossus
(Fr.) Quél. (1872)[1]
Synonyms
  • Agaricus colossus Fr. (1836)
  • Gyrophila colossus (Fr.) Quél. (1886)
  • Armillaria colossus (Fr.) Boud. (1900)
  • Megatricholoma colossus (Fr.) G.Kost (1984)[2]

Tricholoma colossus is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. Due to its ringed foot, it was previously classified as Armillaria, even though it is otherwise clearly tricholoma. The cap is 6-30 cm wide, brick red - chestnut brown, hemispherical when young, widening later on, uneven, always with very thick meat, surface slightly sticky, decomposing somewhat into scales. Foot is full, 2-5 (at the stem even 10) cm thick, solid. Ring-like formation at the top of the foot, above which it is white. Taste horrid, smell unclear. Grows in pine forests September-October; very rare.

See also

References

  1. Quélet L. (1872). "Les Champignons du Jura et des Vosges". Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation de Montbéliard (in French) 5 (2): 43–332 (see p. 76).
  2. Kost G. (1984). "Megatricholoma nov. gen. Eine neue agaricoide Gattung mit verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen zu Arten anderer Organisationsstufen der Homobasidiomyzeten". Sydowia (in German) 37: 53–74.

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