Grey Knight

Tricholoma terreum

Forests, forest edges, parks. Second half of summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized. Cap 3-8 cm across, conical, later flattened, with a blunt umbo, coarsely fibrous, roughened, greyish-brown, grey. Gills grey, adnate. Stem 3—8x1-1.5 cm, of uniform thickness, fibrous, greyish, grey. Flesh thin, brittle, greyish, without a particular taste; old fruiting bodies have a woody, mealy smell. Characteristic features: likes the company of pine and open grassy places (roadsides, forest edges, clearings). Grows in groups in forests, especially coniferous ones, in pine forests. An edible, tasty mushroom, praised and loved by some mushroom pickers.