Girdled Knight - Tricholoma cingulatum
The cap is initially conical, expanding to a campanulate shape; pale or dark grey with a woolly/scaly surface. The gills are emarginate and also pale grey; the pale grey stipe has a ring near the top. The smell and taste are mealy.
There are many other grey Tricholoma, but without a well-defined ring
Photograph from top down, in side view, and from underneath to show gills and full lengh of the stipe, ensure your photo shows a ring.
Associated with Salix
Late summer and autumn.
Common and widespread (Kibby, Vol.2, 2020)
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
det. R Iliffe
David Nicholls
Willesley Woods
07 October 2012
det. R Iliffe
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Species profile
- Common names
- Girdled Knight
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 07/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 17/11/2023 (Graves, Hazel)
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