- Cap convex to expanded, dry, matt, white, often with a yellow-brown cap centre and a ribbed cap margin.
- Gills adnexed, white.
- Stem white, often brown-spotted with age.
- Flesh white, with a pungent smell of radish or cooked beetroot.
- Taste at first almost mild, soon more or less burning acrid.
Tricholomatoid agarics
Chemical Knight
Tricholoma stiparophyllum
LC
Least concern
Poisonous
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with birch in deciduous woodland, mixed woodland and parks throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
Contains gastrointestinal irritant toxins that can cause poisoning, although it is not deadly poisonous.
