Chalky Dapperling

Leucoagaricus cretaceus

Roadsides, parks, gardens, fallow land, fields, squares. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, large. Cap 5—10 cm across, when young elongated bell-shaped, later bluntly conical, eventually flattened, with an indistinct blunt umbo, white, later cream, fibrous, scaly; margins bent downwards with ragged remnants of the partial veil. Gills white, when old pale pinkish-rose, crowded, broad, soft, free. Stem 5-10x1-2 cm, thickening towards the base, with a white ring, white, brownish in the lower part, sometimes bulbous at the base. Flesh fairly thick, firm, white, not changing colour, without a particular smell or taste. Characteristic features: similar to white field mushrooms (Agaricus), differs in its white, brownish gills. Grows singly or a few fruiting bodies together. Edible. Common.