Tricholoma sejunctum

Tricholoma sejunctum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Tricholomataceae
Genus:	Tricholoma
Species:	T. sejunctum
Binomial name
Tricholoma sejunctum (Sowerby) Quél. (1872)[1]
Synonyms
Agaricus sejunctus Sowerby (1799)[2]

Tricholoma sejunctum
Mycological characteristics
	gills on hymenium
	cap is convex
	hymenium is adnexed
	stipe is bare
	spore print is white
	ecology is mycorrhizal
	edibility: unknown

Tricholoma sejunctum (colloquially yellow blusher in the eastern regions of North America^[3]) is a mushroom that appears across much of the Northern Hemisphere and is associated with pine forests.

Edibility

There is some dispute as to its edibility, though it does seem to have been traditionally consumed in much of world without noted ill effects. More recently, in Europe it has been identified as responsible for poisonings. However, it also shows promise as an anti-viral or anti-cancer mushroom.

Flavour

The mushroom is described both in North America and in China as having a 'mealy' flavour, indeed in China's Yunnan province where it is most frequently consumed it is generally known as 荞面菌 (Pinyin: qiao mian jun; lit. 'Buckwheat Noodle Mushroom') on account of this property, despite the fact that its proper name is 黄绿口蘑 (lit. 'Yellow Green Mouth Mushroom').

See also

• List of North American Tricholoma
• List of Tricholoma species

References

1. Quélet L. (1872). "Les Champignons du Jura et des Vosges". Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation de Montbéliard (in French). 5 (II): 43–332 (see p. 72).
2. Sowerby J. (1799). Coloured Figures of English Fungi 2. London: J. Davis. p. 54.
3. Charles Horton Peck. Mushrooms and Their Use. p. 216.

External links

• Tricholoma sejunctum in Index Fungorum