Tricholomataceae Gallery

Calocybe gambosa	Laccaria amethystea	Laccaria laccata	Tricholomopsis rutilans	Collybia peronata	Collybia butyracea
Mycena rosea	Mycena pura	Lepista nuda	Oudemansiella mucida	Clitocybe odora	Clitocybe nebularis
Clitocybe gibba	Clitocybe geotropa	Armillaria mellea	Pseudoclitocybe cyathiformis	Tricholoma portentosum	Flamulina velutipes

The Tricholomataceae constitutes a very large group of over forty genera all with white or very pale flesh and spore prints ranging from white to pale pink or lilac. Some mushrooms in this group are choice edibles - for example Calocybe gambosa,  while others - Clitocybe dealbata is one example - can be killers.

This very large and diverse group contains more than 40 genera in Europe and a lot more world wide. Many of these mushrooms are quite distinctive and can be identified with high confidence by careful with the naked eye; however, there are some superficially similar fungi in this group where one species is a prime edible and the other a serious poison. Great caution is therefore essential when gathering wild mushrooms of the Tricholomataceae family for food; the grey and grey-brown species are best avoided altogether.

There are some 750 European species recorded in the family Tricholomataceae.