– Cap beautifully silvery-gray, with dark scales.
– Gills gray, with a black or black-dotted gill edge.
– Stem silvery-gray with dark scales.
– Stem base often turning orange-pink to rusty brown, especially when drying.
– Flesh with a sharply burning taste.
Tricholomatoid agarics
Scaly Bitter Knight
Tricholoma bresadolanum
VU
Vulnerable
Inedible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with oak and hornbeam on calcareous and nutrient-rich soils in broadleaf forests. An extremely rare species known only from Öland, Gotland, and Östergötland.
Similar species
There are several gray Tricholoma species, but none with the combination of a sharply burning taste, scaly cap and stem, and a dark-dotted gill edge.
Tricholoma sciodes grows in beech forest and lacks scales on the stem.
Tricholoma virgatum has a pointed cap and lacks dark scales on the stem.
Tricholoma sciodes grows in beech forest and lacks scales on the stem.
Tricholoma virgatum has a pointed cap and lacks dark scales on the stem.
