Birch Knight

Tricholoma Fulvum

Deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests, damper places - under birches. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 5-8 (10) cm across, yellowish-brown, the margins radially lobed. Gills yellowish, in older mushrooms brownish-yellow with brownish-brown spots, adnate. Stem 5-10 (12)x1-2 cm in size, yellowish. Flesh thin, yellow, not bitter, with a smell of cucumber. Characteristic features: grows only under birches, cap margins lobed, crimped. Appears singly and in groups around Ukmergė and in some other places in central Lithuania; also wrongly called guotė (milkcap); popular. Tasty salted or fresh, eaten well boiled. Common.