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Tricholoma colossus (Giant Knight)

Synonyms: Agaricus colossus (heterotypic); Armillaria colossus; Gyrophila colossus; Megatricholoma colossus (heterotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Tricholoma colossus is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. Due to its ringed foot, it was previously classified as Armillaria, even though it is otherwise clearly tricholoma. The cap is 6-30 cm wide, brick red - chestnut brown, hemispherical when young, widening later on, uneven, always with very thick meat, surface slightly sticky, decomposing somewhat into scales. Foot is full, 2-5 (at the stem even 10) cm thick, solid. Ring-like formation at the top of the foot, above which it is white. Taste horrid, smell unclear. Grows in pine forests September-October; very rare.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Jämtgaveln 7566 Sweden  
Tyresta-Åva 8080 Sweden  
Vegalla 554 Sweden  

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0