Mouse Knight (Tricholoma myomyces)

Tricholoma myomyces

Coniferous forests, especially pine forests, mixed forests. Second half of summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3—5 cm across, when young conical, later convex-flattened, with an umbo, very fibrous, finely scaly, grey, brownish-grey, mouse-grey. Gills crowded, white, greyish, adnate. Stem 3-5x0.5-1 cm, of uniform thickness, white, grey, fibrous. Flesh thin, white, with a faint mealy smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies smaller than those of the raibasis baltikas (Grey Knight), flesh white. Both species are very similar and hard to tell apart. Grows in groups. An edible, tasty mushroom. Very common.