CAP LARGE, ROBUST WITH WHITE TO BUFF SCALES

Cap: 8-20 cm broad, convex, white to creamy, light brown in age, with scattered scales, margin shaggy with hanging pieces of partial veil

GILLS ATTACHED, WHITE THEN BROWN

Gills: do not descend stalk, attached to stalk, white when young, becoming brown at maturity.

STALK WITH RING; SHAGGY BELOW RING

Stalk: 5-15 cm long, 1-3 cm thick, smooth above ring, scaly or woolly below ring; white then dark in age
Ring: white, shaggy, loose, leaves evanescent ring on upper stalk or sometimes absent in age

SPORE PRINT CINNAMON BROWN

Spores: 7-9.5 x 4-5,5 µm, smooth, elliptical

NOT POISONOUS

FOUND ON COTTONWOOD LOGS