Volvariella bombycina
A striking, large white mushroom with a silky cap and a sac-like volva that grows from wounds and hollows in living and dead hardwoods such as elm and maple. It is edible and a relative of the paddy straw mushroom, and grows readily in culture.
Where it grows wild
A wood-decay fungus on dead or dying hardwood trunks, stumps, knotholes and wounds, especially elm and maple, occasionally on conifers. It often fruits from the same tree year after year.
Mostly lowland to mid-elevation; the 28 records with an elevation span 17–2951 m (median 527 m).
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