A large fungus with a shaggy brown cap on a white background found solitary or in scattered groups in gardens, parks and compost heaps.
Infrewuent from Summer to Autumn.
In grassland, parks, compost heaps in gardens.
Initially bun-shped then expanded-convex, whitish with shaggy, reddish-brown angular scales,
Cap flesh white, thin and soft, reddish when cut. Stem flesh is also white, firm and hollow, reddish when cut.
Free, icrowded, initially whitish or cream, dirty buff with age.
More or less equal, large bulbousbase, whitish discolouring brownish below, thick ring, , whitish, double, superior and moveable.