Whitelaced Shank / Broad-gilled Agaric

Megacollybia platyphylla

Deciduous, coniferous and mixed forests. From spring to late autumn.

Fruiting bodies medium-sized, sometimes large. Cap usually 5—10 cm, but grows even up to 15 cm across, fibrous, scaly, wrinkled, streaked, fissured, sometimes cracked, greyish-brown. Gills distant, broad, white. Stem 5-10x2 cm, white, at the base with long (up to a metre and more) white mycelial strands. Flesh white, thin, with a pleasant smell and taste. Characteristic features: broad, distant, thick white gills; cap radially streaked, margins sometimes split. Grows singly or a few fruiting bodies together on rotten branches, wood debris, in the ground. Edible, very common.