- Cap at first bell-shaped, then expanded with a pointed umbo, pale yellow with olive-brown to reddish-brown innately fibrillose streaks.
- Gills adnexed to adnate, yellowish-white to pale yellow, often with an uneven edge.
- Stem pale yellow, longitudinally fibrillose.
- Flesh white, with bitter taste.
Tricholomatoid agarics
Acrid Knight
Tricholoma aestuans
LC
Least concern
Poisonous
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine, sometimes with spruce, in coniferous forest throughout the Nordic region.
Notes
Gastrointestinal irritant, can cause temporary nausea.
Similar species
Similar to Tricholoma equestre, but that species has mild taste and usually yellower gills.