- Cap when young spherical, buff-coloured and almost smooth, with age convex and with cracking shaggy scales.
- Cap with a distinct umbo.
- Gills white, free.
- Stem with shaggy scales, the same colour as the cap.
- Stem with a ring.
Lepiotoid agarics
Slender Parasol
Macrolepiota mastoidea
LC
Least concern
Edible
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Characteristics
Ecology
Grows in wooded pastures, pastures, forest edges and open deciduous woodland.
Notes
Edible, but rarely collected as an edible mushroom because it is absent from many edible mushroom books.
Similar species
Resembles Macrolepiota procera but is smaller, has a steeper umbo and a buff-coloured cap.
