Destructive Scale Head
Description
Cap convex to expanded with a hump, Ø 6-20 cm, light creamy brown to greyish yellow, with large, woolly, white scales, with woolly velar remnants at the margin.
Gills grey-whitish to dingy brown.
Stem 6-10 x 2-3 cm, smooth, whitish to light creamy brown at the apex, with floccose, with scales below the membranous ring, and with a swollen base. Flesh whitish. Taste bitter. Smell unpleasant.
Occurrence
Fairly common on living and dead wood of Poplar, often on wounds and saw cuts.
Parasitic.
Saprophyte.