Herring (Lepiota cristata (Bolton) P.Kumm.) is a poisonous mushroom from the mushroom family (Agaricaceae). The cap is initially bell-shaped, later spread and with a blunt bulge, slightly sinuous, white in color, covered with red-brown scales, the bulge itself is completely brown, 2-5 cm wide. Leaflets are white or yellowish, dense, wide, free or far away from the stem, unequally long, rounded to the edge. The stem is white, silky, in the lower part reddish and tuberous thickened, cylindrical, slender, hollow, in the upper part it has a passing thin corolla, 4-6 cm high, 3-5 mm thick. The flesh is white, thin, with a distinctly unpleasant fruity smell. Spores are wedge-shaped, transparent, smooth, the poison is white.

It often grows in groups in summer and autumn on grassy areas in parks and gardens under deciduous and evergreen shrubs and trees.

It is a poisonous mushroom, with an unpleasant smell and disgusting taste.