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Abstract: The manifold exploitation of mushrooms by human beings have warranted their extensive study for better understanding about them. The inclusion of mushrooms as one of the items in the Indian diet has been achieved only very recently. In West Bengal, it is gradually becoming a popular dietary item. Several wild edible mushrooms are collected by the local rural people during the rainy season for their own consumption and the surplus is sold in the market (Aich. et al., 1977; Roy et al., 1977, 1978). Tricholoma cassum (Berk.) Sacc. is one such mushroom which is highly preferred by the people of West Bengal (Roy and Samajpati, 1980 a,b). The annual consumption of this mushroom in West Bengal is aoout 3.9 tonnes. The biological nature, nutritive value and cultivation technique of the reported wild edible mushrooms are not know except for a few selected ones (Samajpati, 19783,b; Purkayastha and Chandra, 1975). In this paper the ecological association, a short description and method of cultivation of T. crassum are presented.
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