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Macrolepiota mastoidea
The cap is first conical, changing later to bell shape and finally opening but always maintaining a pointed center. It can reach 12 cm in diameter. It is ochre coloured with scales that open leaving a cream background but keeping the central part in the original colour. The gills are free and closely spaced, white coloured getting darker with age. The stipe is long, cylindrical, plae brown. It has a single sweeping ring pf white colour, that can be brown in the external part. The flesh is thick, whhitish, tender in the cap and fibrous in the stipe. Fungus like smell and sweet taste. Observaciones: Especie de tamaño medio dentro del género, no alcanza las dimensiones de la Macrolepiota procera, de pie atigrado y sin mamelón puntiagudo. Otra especie con mamelón, esta vez obtuso, y que tiene un notable parecido es la Macrolepiota rickenii=Macrolepiota gracilenta, con anillo doble. Se debe tener la precaución de no recolectar Lepiotas de pequeño tamaño, muchas de las cuales son tóxicas o mortales, habiéndose dado muchos casos de intoxicación por Lepiota brunneoincarnata en los últimos tiempos, especie potencialmente mortal.
Meadows and prairie places, sometimes in forest clearings. Autumn species that appears in small groups. It is not so frequent as Macrolepiota procera. Mediterranean forest. Parque nacional de Monfragüe
Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.; f/32; ISO Speed Rating: 200. Focal Length: 90.0 mm.
Spotted on Nov 2, 2012
Submitted on Nov 29, 2012
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Identified as Macrolepiota mastoidea