Sulphur Knight

Tricholoma sulphureum

Deciduous forests, oak woods. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-5 (8) cm across, finely fibrous, greenish-yellow, sulphur-yellow, with a violet tinge in the centre. Gills sulphur-yellow, adnate. Stem 5-10x0.5-1.5 cm, the colour of the cap. Flesh not fleshy, firm, greenish-yellow, with a pungent smell of gas and an unpleasant taste. Characteristic features: a greenish-yellow fungus, flesh yellow, with an unpleasant smell and taste. Grows singly. Poisonous. Common. Similar to the yellow knight, but grows in deciduous forests and, unlike it, smells unpleasant and is not tasty. It may also occur in coniferous forests, under birches.