Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ AgaricalesOrder
• └─ AgaricaceaeFamily
• └─ MacrolepiotaGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

Lifestylesaprobiont

In meadows, forest edges and clearings on sunny ground

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

• edible when cooked
• edible mushroom
• medicinal mushrooms

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