- Cap convex to expanded, light brown to brown, often with large darker brown scales.
- Cap margin remaining inrolled for a long time, often cracking and exposing the white cap flesh.
- Gills adnexed, white, rather crowded.
- Stem firm, whitish-brown to brown, with irregular dark bands or spots, white above the membranous ring.
- Flesh white, with a strong and characteristic sweetish smell reminiscent of certain sweets or cardamom buns.
Tricholomatoid agarics
Spicy Knight
Tricholoma matsutake
VU
Vulnerable
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows with pine on sandy ground, in the north on pine heaths and in the south in nutrient-poor rocky pine forest.
Notes
A long-overlooked edible mushroom which in recent years has proved to be common, especially in northern parts of the Nordic region.
Similar species
Tricholoma focale lacks the scaly-cracked cap of Tricholoma matsutake and smells farinaceous, inedible.
