Soapy Knight - Tricholoma saponaceum
The caps are smooth and greasy, very variable in colour fbut often with a olive-greyish darker centre and pale edge. Gills are cream to pale greenish-grey; stem is buff and may be pinker at base. One variety has dark grey squamules on the stem. The smell is soapy.
Other grey Tricholoma, but the soapy smell is characteristic
smell 
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Found in coniferous and broadleaf woodland.
Appears in autumn, sometimes forming large groups.
Widespread and fairly common (Kibby, Vol.2, 2020)
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
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Species profile
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Tricholomataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 23/09/2018 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 03/11/2021 (Sexton, Timothy)
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