Green Guide to Mushrooms and Toadstools of Britain and Europe by Gordon Dickson

Author:Gordon Dickson
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

Calocybe gambosum

Formerly known as Tricholoma georgii; medium sized, stout, resembling a cultivated mushroom. Cap white. Gills white; adnate and crowded. Flesh thick. Smells strongly of new meal. Edible. Grows in rings on lawns and meadows. Common name: St George’s Mushroom; it is supposed to appear on St George’s Day (23 April) but is usually a month later. Specific name, gambosum, means ‘resembling a hoof’.

Tricholoma fulvum

Medium sized. Cap averages 7cm in width; tawny, usually with slightly darker streaks radiating round the edge. Gills yellow, spotting brown with age; adnate. Flesh yellow. Stem tallish, similarly coloured to cap but paler at the top. Grows in woodland, usually associated with birch. Specific name, fulvum, means ‘tawny’. Similar species include T. sulphureum, slightly smaller, yellow, smelling of coal tar or creosote, and T. saponaceum, larger, greyish, with scaly or spotted stem, smelling of soap.

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