habitatIn meadows, forest edges and clearings on sunny ground
edibilityGood edible when young
├─ Key Features
  • │ ▸ Large pale cap with coarse, shaggy brown scales; egg-shaped and brown-scaly when young
  • │ ▸ Naked margin without veil remnants
  • │ ▸ Snake-skin patterned, slightly club-shaped stem with a thick double ring
  • │ ▸ Free, close white gills; flesh white, flushed reddish-brown when cut
└─ We went to visit this parasol every day over five days. It is interesting to watch it develop.