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Fruiting Body
Fruiting body medium sized. Cap 4-10 cm across, convex, finally plane; dark red brown to dark orange orange, slightly lighter margin; surface slimy or sticky, but soon dry. Flesh thick, soft, white. Odour resembles that of a cucumber; taste bitter.
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Gills adnexed, whitish to very pale orange, becoming brownish in age, close. Stem 2-8 cm long, 1-2 cm thick; whitish, brownish.
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The species is an ectomycorrhizal fungus; it grows in scattered troops or in groups; and it is associated with conifers, especially Monterey pine (Pinus radiata), with which it forms a symbiotic relationship exchanging vital nutrients. Spore print white.
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Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Pale-spore mushrooms Genus
Tricholoma Species
Tricholoma fracticum 
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