Lentinus tigrinus    (Bull.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Tiger Sawgill, Striped Lentinus 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Polyporales/Polyporaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Pleurotaceae  

synonyms: Panus tigrinus, Pleurotus tigrinus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Lentinus contortus)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Lentinus tigrinus
photo gallery of  Lentinus tigrinus potential confusions with  Lentinus tigrinus toxicity of Lentinus tigrinus genus Lentinus  

The cap is white to cream, convex, then flat, then funnel-shaped depressed at the centre; its margin is thin, wavy then split. The cap surface is with concentric brown-grey to black scales, especially towards centre, non viscid.

The stem is short and thin, white, same colour as cap, more or less centred, scaly, with sometimes a cortina or ring zone.

The flesh is white, tough, unchanging; its taste is mild to acrid; the odour is fruity then buttery, or mushroomy; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are cream to yellowish, decurrent, more or less crowded, thin, with a toothed edge . The spore print is white to cream. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, on stumps or wet branches, in damp places, sometimes on partially immersed dead wood, mostly on dead wood of willow or poplar, sometimes on beech.

The fruiting period takes place from March to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 5 mm (between 2 and 9 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : on poplar or alder stumps or dead wood, funnel-shaped cap, with brown scales; short and thin stem, often off-centre; decurrent gills with a toothed edge; in wet areas

Lentinus tigrinus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lentinus tigrinus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lentinus tigrinus in the forest of Rambouillet



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