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Tan mushroom at the fern edge
Unidentified agaric Uncertain
Angles captured. 2 frames of one subject.
Morphology
Cap 5–6 cm, pale tan, plane. Stipe pale, slender. Seen against ferns and a fallen branch.
Habitat & substrate
Leaf litter beneath hay-scented fern.
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 old frilly-margin entry, which held four unlike subjects.
Found at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 10:22. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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