Booted Knight

Tricholoma focale

Dry, sandy pine forests. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, rarely large. Cap 5-12 cm across, convex when young, later flattened with an inconspicuous blunt umbo, orange-brown, yellowish-brown, the margin paler. Gills white, later yellowish, adnate or free. Stem 6-8x1.5-2 cm, tapering towards the base, with a ring, below it orange-brown flaky. Flesh white, firm, thick, with an unpleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies orange-brown, chestnut-coloured. Grows singly or several together in pine forests, in more open sandy places, more common in the forests of south-eastern Lithuania. Inedible; some sources even list it as poisonous. Uncommon.