Tricholoma gausapatum (Woolly Knight)

Tricholoma gausapatum

Deciduous and coniferous forests, parks. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 3-7 cm across, when young conical, later flattened with an umbo, shaggy, finely scaly, greyish-brown, thin, fragile, sometimes with split margins. Gills broad, crowded, greyish, adnate. Stem 3-10x0.3-1.3 cm, white, fibrous, with a faint band of a ring-like remnant. Flesh thin, greyish, without a particular taste or taste. Characteristic features: grows in small groups or singly, fruiting bodies fragile. An edible, tasty mushroom. The Yellowing Knight (T. scalpturatum) is very similar, only it differs in its more fragile, more delicate and yellowing fruiting bodies.