Dear friends,
Sorry for not posting so much lately, but mushrooms and Malta are not friends anymore - it is not raining abundantly.
Anyway, I have found something exciting a week ago, a brown Tricholoma species, with crumbling flesh and gills (like a Russula) and a remnant ring, just a wrinkle impressed around the stipe (like a Cortinarius) but it is indeed a Tricholoma with pip-shaped spores just 5um long. Only one specimen, oldish, 2-3m away from a Pine tree in calcareous limestone-rich soil.
Are there other species to consider and look alike my finding. I have a specimen if I need t make further observations (Pileipellis? Cystidia?)
Thank you in advance
LG
Steve.
After some research I shortlisted it to Tricholoma batschii.