Tricholoma venenatum
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Tricholoma venenatum is a mushroom
of the agaric
genus Tricholoma. It was first described scientifically by American mycologist George F. Atkinson in 1908.
Mushroom
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...
of the agaric
Agaric
An agaric is a type of fungal fruiting body characterized by the presence of a pileus that is clearly differentiated from the stipe , with lamellae on the underside of the pileus. "Agaric" can also refer to a basidiomycete species characterized by an agaric-type fruiting body...
genus Tricholoma. It was first described scientifically by American mycologist George F. Atkinson in 1908.