- Cap spherical when young, grey-brown, with age convex to expanded with an umbo and cracking brown scales.
- Gills crowded, free, white, becoming faintly brown-spotted with age.
- Stem hollow, tough, white, with a brown snakeskin-like pattern and swollen stem base.
- Ring substantial, easily detached and can be moved up and down the stem.
- Flesh white, with a pleasant nutty taste and smell.
Lepiotoid agarics
Parasol
Macrolepiota procera
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows in forest edges and in light places in deciduous forest, coniferous forest and open grasslands in the southern and central Nordic region.
Similar species
May be confused with Amanita pantherina and Amanita regalis, but these amanitas have PALE veil patches contrasting with the darker cap colour, whereas Macrolepiota procera has DARK scales on a paler background.
Chlorophyllum rhacodes reddens when bruised and lacks a pattern on the stem, inedible.
Macrolepiota mastoidea has a steeper umbo and paler colour, edible.
Chlorophyllum rhacodes reddens when bruised and lacks a pattern on the stem, inedible.
Macrolepiota mastoidea has a steeper umbo and paler colour, edible.
