Stinking Dapperling

Lepiota cristata – Inedible

Thickets, roadsides, parks, forests, grassy places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2-5 (7) cm across, thin-fleshed, fragile, white, shaggy with small brown, reddish-brown scales. Gills white, with brownish-spotted edges. Stem 3-7x0.3-0.5 cm, white, with a ring, yellowish-brownish below the ring. Flesh white, with a pleasant smell, not bitter. Characteristic features: fruiting bodies with an unpleasant, pungent smell. Spores blunt at the basal end, with a small beak. Grows in groups. Inedible. Very common.