Tricholoma inamoenum

Tricholoma inamoenum is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma found through the Northern Hemisphere, particularly under conifers.^[2] It is poisonous, and is characterized by an unpleasant odor resembling coal gas or tar.^[3][2] • Analysis of the volatile compounds emanating from fresh sporocarps using solid phase microextraction (SPME) showed the odor compounds responsible for the coal tar odor of this mushroom are 1-octen-3-ol and indole. ^[4]

Tricholoma inamoenum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Tricholomataceae
Genus:	Tricholoma
Species:	T. inamoenum
Binomial name
Tricholoma inamoenum (Fr.) Gillet (1878)
Synonyms[1]
Agaricus inamoenus Fr. (1815) Gyrophila inamoenum (Fr.) Quél. (1888)

Seattle's Tricholoma platyphyllum may be the same species. A similar species is Tricholoma sulphureum, which is found under both conifers and hardwoods.^[2]

See also

• List of North American Tricholoma
• List of Tricholoma species

References

1. "Tricholoma inamoenum (Fr.) Gillet :112, 1874". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2013-03-23.
2. Trudell, Steve; Ammirati, Joe (2009). Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Timber Press Field Guides. Portland, OR: Timber Press. pp. 103–104. ISBN 978-0-88192-935-5.
3. Miller Jr., Orson K.; Miller, Hope H. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, CN: FalconGuide. p. 124. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
4. Wood W. F.; Largent D. L.; Henkel T. W. (2004). "Headspace analysis identifies indole and 1-octen-3-ol as the "coal tar" odor of Tricholoma inamoenum". Mycological Progress. 3 (4): 325–328. doi:10.1007/s11557-006-0102-z.