Ashen Knight - Tricholoma virgatum
Pale to dark grey caps with silvery sheen; white to pale grey gills described as being minutely toothed. Stem white, greyish fibrils, may be pinkish or yellowish at base. Smell is earthy or spicy.
other grey Tricholoma.
Photograph from top down, in side view and underneath to show gills and full length of stipe; note smell, habitat and substrate. This is a difficult species to identify with certainty and we recommend that your record is confirmed from a specimen by an expert befre submission to Natruespot.
Confiers, typically Spruce; may also be Pines or Larch
Summer and autumn in Britain and Ireland.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Ashen Knight
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 1
- First record:
- 25/09/2019 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 25/09/2019 (Nicholls, David)
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