This beauty With yellowish gills and cap and a brownish disc is best eaten fairly young when it is quite good sauteed. OIder specimens can be insipid. It is found under conifers and hardwoods in the mountains and on the coast. This specimen is from Lake Crescent Lodge under Douglas Fir. It is mycorrhizal and tends to come back year after year in the same place, but is not often encountered. The 2-6 inch Caps are appressed fibrillose and can be brown under shade and yellow with some brown at the disc in good light. The stalk is stocky, shaggy and scaly. Often the margin of young caps is hung with velar material.