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Pale capped mushroom on the bank
Unidentified agaric Uncertain
Angles captured. 2 frames of one subject.
Morphology
Cap 4–5 cm, pale buff to greyish-cream with a slightly darker centre, plane with a wavy margin. Gills pale, seen faintly from the side. Stipe pale, stout.
Habitat & substrate
Litter and rotting wood on the same bank as TM0086.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
Not resolvable from the angles shown.
To confirm this identification
An underside frame and a view of the stipe base.
Notes
Split from the violet group — a different mushroom, not a cort.
Found at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 10:15. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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