I have loved mushrooms since childhood, and I have also been a programmer for a long time. Combining these two hobbies, I wrote this website. Previously, I had two other mushroom identification sites, which I sold. Only one of them remains accessible today. My goal with the current site is to create an easy-to-use search and identification platform that works great both in the field and at home. I hope it brings joy to others.
Bartha László
Species flashcards
Practice area: created for the 303-species Hungarian mushroom inspector requirement. It is not an official examination; requirements in other countries may differ.
Three-coloured Tricholoma
Leucopaxillus tricolor
edible
Protected · 5 000 Ft
- Habitat: deciduous
- Fruiting season: June – September
- Cap: flat depressed cracked smooth felty grooved wavy
- Stem: cylindrical thickening
- Fertile layer: adnate decurrent dense serrated
Description
Cap: 9-30 cm in diameter; initially convex, then flattening, finally slightly depressed, its margin wavy, and weakly grooved; yellowish, ochre-skin-colored, orange-brown; surface smooth or finely felty, may crack with age.
Gills: Adnate or only slightly decurrent; yellowish when young, then ochre, purple-colored when dry; their edges often slightly serrated.
Stem: 4-8 cm long; 2-6 cm thick; stocky, stout, often thickening downwards; whitish or yellowish, its base often rust-ochre.
Flesh: Thick; hard; whitish or yellowish; sweetish-floury smell, becoming quite unpleasant with age, floury taste, mild.
Spore: White, 6.2–7.5 × 4–5.6 μm, elliptical, finely spiny surface.
Occurrence: From July to September; in deciduous forests, mainly under beech and oak, rare, recommended for protection mushroom species in Hungary.
Edibility: Edible, but rare, so leave it at its habitat!
Confusion: The similar, protected rooting false parasol has a rooting stem and a corn-silk smell. The edible whitish false parasol has a cream-colored, pale ochre fruiting body, its gills are more decurrent on the stem, and grows on sandy soil.
Note: tricolor means three-colored. compactus means stocky, compact, stout. leucopaxillus means white stake or stem.
Species description: First described scientifically in 1861 by Elias Magnus Fries, who named it Agaricus compactus. Later, it received its name from Neuhoff in 1958.
Taxonomy
- PhylumBasidiomycota
- ClassAgaricomycetes
- OrderAgaricales
- FamilyTricholomataceae
- GenusLeucopaxillus
- Species: tricolor
- Described by: (Peck) Kühner
- Hungarian name: háromszínű álpereszke
- Lifestyle: soil saprotroph
- Edibility: edible
