In meadows, forest edges and clearings on sunny ground

Good edible when young

• ▸ 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