English: Freckled dapperling.
German: Spitzschuppige schrimling; Raue Stachel-Schirmling.
Name: Latin "asper" means "rough".
Synonym:
Echinoderma asperum; Lepiota friesii; Lepiota acutesquamosa; Lepiota acutesquamosa; Cystolepiota aspera; Agaricus acutesquamosus; Agaricus friesii.
Region: northern temperate zones, Europe, North Africa; also Japan, Australia, New Zealand.
Habitat: deciduous woodland, on bark chips in parks, gardens.
Use: edibility: not recommended; causes alcohol intolerance and may be poisonous.
MycologyCap: ovate, campanulate, convex with age; large; uniform reddish brown or brown at the centre, breaking up into erect pyramidal scales on a paler ground; 10 cm in diameter; warty or scaly; flesh is white, smells of rubber, earth balls.
Hymenium: free; gills, white, on hymenium, tendency to fork, free, crowded, white.
Stipe: has a ring; paler; 10 cm long; with sparse brown scales below the ring; ring is large and cottony, sometimes adhering to the cap perimeter, often taking brownish scales from there.
Spore print: white