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Tricholoma populinum

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Tricholoma populinum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Tricholomataceae
Genus: Tricholoma
Species:
T. populinum
Binomial name
Tricholoma populinum

Tricholoma populinum, commonly known as the poplar tricholoma, sandy,[2] or cottonwood mushroom,[3] is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. It was formally described by Danish mycologist Jakob Emanuel Lange in 1933. It is traditionally eaten by the Salish Native Americans in British Columbia.[3]

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Tricholoma populinum
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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 edible
  1. ^ Lange JE. (1933). "Studies in the agarics of Denmark. Part IX. Tricholoma, Lentinus, Panus, Nyctalis". Dansk Botanisk Arkiv. 8 (3): 1–44.
  2. ^ Thiers, Harry D.; Arora, David (September 1980). "Mushrooms Demystified". Mycologia. 72 (5): 1054. doi:10.2307/3759750. ISSN 0027-5514.
  3. ^ a b Turner, Nancy J; Kuhnlein, Harriet V.; Egger, Keith N. (May 1987). "The cottonwood mushroom (Tricholoma populinum): a food resource of the Interior Salish Indian peoples of British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Botany.