Sulphur Knight
Sulphur Knight - Tricholoma sulphureum
A bright sulphur-yellow Tricholoma with a convex cap, sometimes with a slight umbo. It has a very unplesant smell of coal-gas. The stem and gills are also sulphur-yellow. A variety (var. bufonium) with a pinkish brown cap also exists.
Other yellowish-brown Tricholoma occur in the UK, but mainly as northern or Scottish species. T hemisulphureum also has a yellowish cap and coal-gas smell, but is associated with Rock-rose; to our knowledge it has not been recorded in VC55.
Photograph top-down, in side view and underneath to show gills, note habitat and substrate; note smell
In deciduous and mixed woods, usually with Oak or Beech.
Late Summer to Autumn.
Widespread but local in distribution.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
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