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Soapy Trich

Tricholoma saponaceum

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) hendre17, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.

United States	9,334
Alaska	8,682
Canada	244
California	142
Russia	101
Washington	95
Spain	83
Colorado	81
Germany	79
British Columbia	72

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Ecological

DecomposerBreaks down dead organic matter, recycling nutrientsFrom its classification

Group and habits

Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

Kingdom	Fungi Including Lichens · Fungi
Phylum	Basidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
Class	Mushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
Order	Common Gilled Mushrooms and Allies · Agaricales
Family	Tricholomataceae
Genus	Knights · Tricholoma

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
Traits: FungiTastic metadata (BSD-3-Clause repository; dataset terms require verification)
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Soapy Trich with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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