Beech Knight

Tricholoma sciodes – Poisonous

Deciduous forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3–8 cm across, conical when young, later flattened, with an umbo, fibrous, scaly, finely cracked in dry weather, dark grey, greyish-brownish, with a violet tinge. Gills crowded, greyish, adnate. Stem 3-8 (11)x0.5-2 cm, white, grey, sometimes with a brownish tinge, fibrous near the gills, smooth below. Flesh greyish, firm, with an unpleasant smell and bitter taste. Characteristic features: grows singly or in small groups and only in deciduous forests.

Inedible, mildly poisonous. Rare.