Tricholomopsis rutilans    (Schaeff.:Fr.) Singer 

common name(s) : Plums And Custard 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Agaricomycetideae/Tricholomatales/Tricholomataceae/Tricholomatoideae  

synonyms: Tricholoma rutilans, Pleurotus rutilans 

edibility : discard

photo gallery of Tricholomopsis rutilans
photo gallery of Tricholomopsis rutilans potential confusions with Tricholomopsis rutilans toxicity of Tricholomopsis rutilans genus Tricholomopsis  

The cap is with dense red scales on a yellow background, convex, with a very broad umbo; its margin is smooth to more or less striate. The cap surface is scaly, not viscid nor sticky.

The stem is yellow, with red scales, without ring.

The flesh is cream to yellow, unchanging; its taste is mild or bitter; the odour is faint, of mould or rotten wood; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are yellow, almost free to emarginate or sinuate, crowded . The spore print is white. This species is saprophytic. It grows on dead wood, often in small tufts, on or around stumps of conifers, most of the time with pine, spruce, fir.

The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 11 cm (between 3 and 20 cm)
  height of stem approximately 8 cm (between 3 and 15 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 15 mm (between 10 and 50 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Cap and stem entirely covered with fine purple-reddish scales on a yellow background; egg-yellow gills; on coniferous stumps

Tricholomopsis rutilans is occasional and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tricholomopsis rutilans in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tricholomopsis rutilans in the forest of Rambouillet



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