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Man on horseback

Tricholoma equestre · Knights (Tricholoma)

Poisonous
Man on horseback
📷 Kingman Bond-Graham, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Poisonous. Several meals on consecutive days can destroy muscle tissue; deaths are known.

Recognise it safely – what matters

  1. Yellow gills and yellow stem
  2. Pine forest on sand
  3. Long regarded as edible – that is outdated

Features

Cap
5–12 cm, yellow to greenish yellow, brownish centre, often sandy.
Underside
Gills: bright sulphur yellow.
Stem
Yellow, short.
Flesh
Whitish to yellowish
Smell
Mealy
Spore print
White

Season

Habitat

Pine forests on sandy soils, often half buried in sand.

Sosna

If someone has eaten it

Muscle pain and weakness, dark urine, heart problems. First symptoms: 1–3 days after repeated meals.

Act immediately – even without symptoms:

  • Emergency number 112 if someone feels unwell.
  • Poison centre: Germany – area code of the nearest city with a poison centre + 19240 (e.g. Berlin 030 19240, Munich 089 19240) · Austria +43 1 406 43 43 · Switzerland 145.
  • Keep leftovers, trimmings or vomit – it helps with identification.

Never identify mushrooms by pictures or an app alone. When in doubt, ask a mushroom expert – and only pick what you know for sure.

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