Description:
Tall sometimes massive agaric. An excellent edible*
Habitat:
Infrequent, late summer to autumn in trooping groups on soil with B-L or coniferous trees
Cap:
At first obtusely ovoid becoming convex with flattened centre and later expanded; yellowish brown bruising yellow covered in small brown, fibrous, pointed scales in moreor les concentric rings.
Flesh:
Whitish discolouring yellowish brown with age, firm and thick; smelling of bitter almonds.
Gills:
Free, broad, crowded at first pallid pink becoming chocolate brown or blackish.
Spores:
Dark brown, ellipsoid, smooth
Stem:
Cylindrical, white bruising yellow, whitish above ring, scaly below; ring attached to upper part of stem, persistent., large, hanging, white.
Additional Notes:
* Do not confuse with the poisonous A. xanthoderma
