A cream to pale yellow woodwax coated in thick slime, with a glutinous partial veil that leaves a slimy ring on the stem. The stem is whitish and scaly above the ring and slimy cream-yellow below. It grows under conifers.
Edible, but probably too slimy to be of value (Mykoweb). Look-alikes: White Amanita species, including the deadly destroying angels (amatoxins), can look similar from above; Amanitas have free gills, a skirt-like ring and a sac-like volva at the stem base, whereas this species has thick, waxy, attached-to-decurrent gills and no volva. H. eburneus is more slender, white and lacks a ring.
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Habitat
Ectomycorrhizal; scattered to gregarious under conifers. Fruits mid to late winter in California.
Distribution
Western North America, with herbarium records from Alaska, British Columbia, Oregon, Washington and Yukon, and occurrences in California; also Europe.
Characteristics
Cap: 3-9 cm, convex becoming flat or centrally depressed, sometimes with a low umbo; glutinous when moist, varnished-looking when dry; cream to cream-yellow, the disc often darker. Gills: adnate to subdecurrent, becoming decurrent, subdistant, thick, waxy, cream-yellow. Stem: 3-5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm thick, whitish and minutely scaly above, cream-yellow and slimy below. Veil: glutinous, leaving a superior, slimy, fleeting ring. Odor and taste: not distinctive. Spore print: white. Spores: 8.5-10 x 4.5-6 um, ellipsoid, smooth, inamyloid (Mykoweb).
