- Cap convex to expanded, reddish-brown to yellow-brown, often with a sulcate-ribbed cap margin.
- Gills adnexed to adnate, yellowish-white, soon brown-spotted with age.
- Stem brown with a yellowish tinge.
- Flesh white to yellowish-white, yellow in the stem base.
- Smell and taste farinaceous.
Tricholomatoid agarics
Birch Knight
Tricholoma fulvum
LC
Least concern
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with birch in deciduous and mixed woodland throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
Reported as edible in some mushroom literature, but generally not a recommended edible mushroom.
Similar species
No other brown Tricholoma species have yellow-coloured stem flesh.