Identification
Cream-white thick cap, dense white gills, short stem; strong mealy (fresh-flour) smell. Appears in April–June — the season of the first edible spring cap mushrooms.
Edibility
Good edible — fried, stewed. The early season makes it popular.
How not to confuse it
- Livid entoloma: salmon-pink gills when mature, no mealy smell — discard.
- Fool's funnel: thin flesh, decurrent gills, poisonous.