Neolentinus lepideus - Hat diameter 30-150 mm, young hemispherical, conical, later conical, flat, with a depression in the middle or with a blunted umbo. Surface dry, matte; white, cream, ocher yellow, pale brown. The skin bursting into quite large, adjacent, bronzing scales, finer with long-rolled edges.

Lamellae broad, broadly adnate, slightly converging on the shaft, with a sharp serrated, notched edge; white, yellowish.

Stem 30-80 mm high, 10-20 mm thick; cylindrical, conical, full; young white, with a hard shell in the upper part, brownish-scaly with age; at the base brownish, black-brown. Often eccentric, even side and bent.

The ring is visible only in young animals, it quickly disappears.

The pulp is thick and meaty. Young quite soft, with age springy, bracty, hard, dry even woody. In the whitish color, at the bottom of the brownish shaft. The taste is weak, the smell is nice, sweet, balsamic, like fermenting fruit or anise.

Occurrence: On dead wood of conifers, on trunks, stumps, pillars, railway sleepers. It grows singly or in groups; from May to November. Frequent.

Value: Unaffected fungus.