Trichloma terreum?

[FungiJus]

Here's one for you.

At first I thought I had an Inocybe but I ended up with a white spore print so keyed this out to be a knight!



I reckoned Trichloma terreum - any other thoughts?

[NickCantle]

Does look like T. terreum Jus, but I've limited experience with grey Tricholoma.

[fairplay]

With that fibrilose cap surface and grey gills, I shall second Nick's suggestion.

Neil.

[FungiJus]

Thanks chaps - a new species for my local woods.

[FungiJus]

I got this one today from another spot (which has just become my favourite foraying ground!).



Thousands of these throughout the pine woods, but I was interested in the stipes which all seemed to exhibit this marked two-tone effect.

I am sure I have seen this before somewhere, but it was a long time ago and I can't remember which species it was - could have been this again perhaps.

Anyway, I thought I would share it with you.

J.

[fairplay]

This is most interesting Fungijus, I came across this same phenomenon last weekend in a forest ride with 2 different species.

My first find could have been just a Buttercap (I forget what it was) but had this obvious 'watermark'. I just put it down to where one half was below the soil, but the second find with this same 2 tones on the stem was a Deceiver.

I gave it some serious thought as it was so distinctive and exactly as shown in your photo (yet a different species again)

This is worth some serious study - beyond my capabilities I'm afraid, but if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon, do take a photo and add it to this thread.

Neil.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

Does look like T. terreum Jus, but I've limited experience with grey Tricholoma.

ditto though I'm sure that this is good T. terreum and not one of the taxa formerly treated a varieties but now raised to species status

could the two-tone effect mark the point where in the primordium the veil was located?

to throw in another 'grey Tricholoma' which I found for the first time recently attached is a picture of Tricholoma sciodes with a 'silkier' cap than terreum and a very nice character (such characters not always present in this genus!) in the blackish gill edge which develops as the fruit-bodies mature and age

Chris

[fairplay]

Hi Chris,

Your suggestion of the ring being caused by the veil is sound but this is not really a ring as such, but is two clear cut zones, and as for the 2 common species I saw this on last weekend I can't really be sure if they would have had a veil attached to the stem.

Best I re-visit the site tomorrow and write down the species this time and try to get some shots.

Neil.

[NickCantle]

That two tone effect on thew stipe has been evident in every specimen of this species I've found this season. Is it coincidence that mine were growing in the moss and the moisture of the moss kept the stipe flesh fresh? The line was as high as the moss was growing. Might have something to do with it.