Key Features
  • Entire mushroom dull white (but bruised areas usually yellowish or orangish).
  • Cap usually concave or wavy when mature, bald.
  • Gills running down the stalk, well spaced, shallow, blunt-edged, and fairly thick, often with connecting veins in between.
  • Stalk solid (not hollow), not snapping open cleanly like a piece of chalk.
  • Veil, ring, and volva absent.
  • Growing on ground in woods, not in fused clusters.
  • Other Features: Medium-sized to large; flesh thick and white; spores white.