Entoloma rhodopolium

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Entoloma rhodopolium
Conservation status
Secure
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Hymenomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Entolomataceae
Genus: Entoloma
Species: E. rhodopolium
Binomial name
Entoloma rhodopolium
(Fr.) P. Kumm.
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Entoloma rhodopolium
mycological characteristics:
 
gills on hymenium
 

cap is convex

 

hymenium is adnate

 

stipe is bare

 

spore print is pink

 

ecology is mycorrhizal

 

edibility: poisonous

Entoloma rhodopolium, known as the wood pinkgill, is a poisonous mushroom found in Europe and Asia. In fact, it is one of the three most commonly implicated fungi in cases of mushroom poisoning in Japan. Symptoms are predominantly gastrointestinal in nature, though muscarine and choline have been isolated as toxic agents.

The taxonomy of this species is currently unclear, with several different forms identified in North America, and questions over whether the European and North American fungi are even the same species.

Entoloma is a genus of pink spored fungi. An alternate scientific name seen is Rhodophyllus rhodopolius, from Quelet's broader genus containing a larger subsection of pink-spored fungi.

Entoloma nidorosum, previously considered a separate species, is now classified as a variety of this fungus.

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