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Tricholoma fulvum (Bull.) Bigeard & H. Guill., 1913 (Birch Knight)

Notes (MWS) A large toadstool with a brown stem, sticky brown cap, yellow gills and yellow flesh in the stem. It is mychorrizal usually with *Betula* and is widespread and common in deciduous or mixed woods.

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #microphotos
Tricholoma fulvum Fruitbody 29 October 2005 Berks England 10 11
Tricholoma fulvum Fruitbody 30 September 1985 Berks England 7
Tricholoma fulvum Fruitbody 7 November 1976 East Sussex England 3

Suggested Literature

Tricholoma fulvum may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
TRICHOLOMATACEAE
(a family of toadstools)
Tricholoma
(knight toadstools)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Tricholoma fulvum is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Betula - birches (Betulaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acid soil]
Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acid soil]
Photos fruitbody Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) fruitbody is ectomycorrhizal with live root Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on acid soil]

Associated with Tricholoma fulvum:

Tricholoma fulvum may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICALES
(mushrooms and toadstools)
Tricholoma
(knight toadstools)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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