Compost Mushroom
Description
Cap globose to flattened convex, Ø 10-15 cm, dingy brown, cracking into large scales on a whitish background.
Gills pale pink to chocolate-brown.
Stem 6-12 x 3-5 cm, whitish, with fibrillose, brown scales when young, with thick, pendulous, white ring and a tapering base. Flesh white, reddening slightly. Taste nutty. Smell somewhat sour, mushroomy.
Suspicious.
Occurrence
On the ground and on compost in parks, young scrub, roadsides and in churchyards on rich soil. Often pushing up through the soil in trooping, deep-rooting groups.
Saprophyte.