Description:
Cap: convex then expanding to become plano-convex with a broad low umbo, tan, pale russet or even yellowish buff throughout or slightly darker at the centre.
Stem: gradually thickened upwards, similarly coloured to the cap or paler if the cap is dark russet.
Gills: pale buff, deeply decurrent and often connected up at their bases by veins.
Flesh: buff or pale tan, thick and soft in the cap, slightly fibrous in the stem.
Spore-print: white.
Spores: medium-sized, ellipsoid to egg-shaped, hyaline under the microscope, 7-8 × 5 µm in size and not becoming bluish grey in solutions containing iodine.
Marginal and facial cystidia: absent.
Habitat & Distribution: Common in pastures or on heaths from early summer to late autumn.
General Information: A fungus easily recognised by the uniform buff-colour of the stem, cap and gills. As one might expect from the common name it is edible; it is held in high regard by many mushroom-pickers.