Soapy Knight

- Cap bell-shaped or convex to expanded, often with a low umbo.
- Cap colour variable, yellowish-grey, yellow-brown, grey-brown or brownish-black, often with an olive-green to olive-brown tinge and with a whitish cap margin.
- Gills adnexed, dirty white, becoming spotted reddish-brown to salmon-pink with age.
- Stem dirty white, often with a grey-green tinge.
- Flesh white, with a characteristic smell of soap or an old dishcloth.
- The whole fruitbody develops reddish-brown to salmon-pink spots with age.

Grows in deciduous and coniferous forest throughout the Nordic region.

Tricholoma saponaceum is a complex of several different species which, in addition to T. saponaceum s. str., also includes T. atrovirens, T. boudieri and T. rapipes.