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.
| Tricholoma sejunctum | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Tricholomataceae |
| Genus: | Tricholoma |
| Species: | T. sejunctum
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| Binomial name | |
| Tricholoma sejunctum | |
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Tricholoma sejunctum | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is adnexed |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | Edibility is unknown |
Description
editThe 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
editThere 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
editTricholoma 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
editReferences
edit- ^ 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).
- ^ Sowerby J. (1799). Coloured Figures of English Fungi. Vol. 2. London: J. Davis. p. 54.
- ^ Charles Horton Peck. Mushrooms and Their Use. p. 216.
- ^ a b c d 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.
- ^ 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.