Orange grisette or Grisette

The cap is 5 to 12 cm across, egg-shaped as it breaks out of the sac, then bell-shaped and convex, finally flat with a low, darker central bump.

It's yellow-orange to orange-brown with an apricot tinge in the centre, paler towards the edge. The surface is smooth and shiny, slightly sticky when wet, and almost never carries patches of veil. The edge is grooved like a comb.

The cap is 5-10 cm across, hemispherical to egg-shaped when young, later convex-flat with a low umbo. The colour is grey, ash-grey or mouse-grey, darker at the centre. The surface is smooth and slightly slimy in wet weather. The margin has characteristic radial grooves (like the ribs of an umbrella), a diagnostic feature of section Vaginatae. Whitish patches of veil may remain on the cap.

The gills are free, crowded, white to cream, with shorter gills of varying length in between.

The spore print is white.

The gills are free, crowded and pure white. The spore print is white.

The stem is 10 to 15 cm tall, up to 20 cm, and 1 to 2 cm thick, tapering upwards, hollow and brittle with age, pale to deep orange with a white-and-orange zig-zag pattern of soft scales, like snakeskin. There's no ring and no bulb.

At the base is a large, thick, loose white sac (volva), often lobed and hidden in the soil.

The stem is 10-18 cm tall and 0.8-1.5 cm thick, thin, slender and tall, slightly thickened toward the base. It's whitish, sometimes with fine greyish fibres or a zigzag pattern. There's no ring. At the base is a sac-like, eggshell volva, just like the destroying angel's.

The flesh is thin, white, soft and fragile, and doesn't change colour when cut.

The flesh is thin, soft and white and doesn't change colour when cut. The smell is faint and neutral.

The smell is faint: some sources call it sweet and mushroomy, others indistinct.

Faint, neutral, mushroomy, with no distinctive notes.