Tricholoma sejunctum

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Tricholoma sejunctum
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Tricholoma
Species:
T. sejunctum
Binomial name
Tricholoma sejunctum
(Sowerby) Quél. (1872) [1]
Synonyms
  • Agaricus sejunctusSowerby (1799) [2]
Tricholoma sejunctum
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Tricholoma sejunctum (colloquially yellow blusher in the eastern regions of North America) [3] is a mushroom that appears across much of the Northern Hemisphere and is associated with pine forests.

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Description

The cap is greenish-brownish yellow, slightly moist, and has dark fibrils near the center. The gills and stipe are whitish-yellow. The odor is mild to mealy and the taste mild to unpleasant. [4]

Edibility

There is some confusion as to the certain identification of the species, so it is considered unsafe for eating. [4] While classified as inedible by some field guides, [5] it seems to have been traditionally consumed in much of world without noted ill effects.[ citation needed ] More recently, in Europe it has been identified as responsible for poisonings.[ citation needed ]

The species is reportedly consumed in China's Yunnan province, where it is generally known as 荞面菌 (Pinyin: qiao mian jun; lit. 'Buckwheat Noodle Mushroom') on account of this property, despite the fact that its proper name is 黄绿口蘑 (lit. 'Yellow Green Mouth Mushroom').[ citation needed ]

Similar species

Tricholoma flavovirens is usually larger and fleshier, with more solid yellow gills and stipe and a less fibrillose cap. [4] Other similar species include Tricholoma arvernense , and T. viridilutescens . [4]

See also

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References

  1. Quélet L. (1872). "Les Champignons du Jura et des Vosges". Mémoires de la Société d'Émulation de Montbéliard (in French). 5 (II): 43–332 (see p. 72).
  2. Sowerby J. (1799). Coloured Figures of English Fungi. Vol. 2. London: J. Davis. p. 54.
  3. Charles Horton Peck. Mushrooms and Their Use. p. 216.
  4. 1 2 3 4 Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. pp. 106–107. ISBN   978-0-88192-935-5.
  5. Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 127. ISBN   978-0-7627-3109-1.