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Orange mushrooms on a rotten log

Unidentified agaric Uncertain

Low–moderate confidence TM0070 8 August 2026 · 09:40 15 frames
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Angles captured. Fifteen frames along the log, from wide locating shots to close profiles of individual fruitbodies at both ends.

Morphology

A scattered population along one long rotten log. Caps 1–3 cm, bright orange to tawny, convex becoming plane, smooth and slightly greasy. Stipes pale yellow-orange, slender, curved, 3–5 cm. A dense troop of small buttons erupts along the upper edge at one end; further along, larger mature fruitbodies stand singly.

Habitat & substrate

A soft, well-rotted log on the forest floor, with an adjacent mossy log. Saprotrophic — one mycelium clearly running the length of the wood.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

Xeromphalina, Gymnopus or a small Hygrocybe.

Notes

Briefly split into three entries — troop, single fruitbody, and locating frames. They are one population on one log.

Found at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 09:40. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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