Tricholoma populinum, commonly known as the poplar tricholoma, sandy,[2] or cottonwood mushroom,[3] is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. It was formally described by Danish mycologist Jakob Emanuel Lange in 1933. It is traditionally eaten by the Salish Native Americans in British Columbia.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: | Tricholomataceae |
| Genus: | Tricholoma |
| Species: | T. populinum
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| Binomial name | |
| Tricholoma populinum | |
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Tricholoma populinum | |
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 | Gills on hymenium |
 | Cap is convex |
 | Hymenium is adnexed |
 | Stipe is bare |
 | Spore print is white |
 | Ecology is mycorrhizal |
 | Edibility is edible |
- ^ Lange JE. (1933). "Studies in the agarics of Denmark. Part IX. Tricholoma, Lentinus, Panus, Nyctalis". Dansk Botanisk Arkiv. 8 (3): 1–44.
- ^ Thiers, Harry D.; Arora, David (September 1980). "Mushrooms Demystified". Mycologia. 72 (5): 1054. doi:10.2307/3759750. ISSN 0027-5514.
- ^ a b Turner, Nancy J; Kuhnlein, Harriet V.; Egger, Keith N. (May 1987). "The cottonwood mushroom (Tricholoma populinum): a food resource of the Interior Salish Indian peoples of British Columbia". Canadian Journal of Botany.