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Large buff funnel with decurrent gills

Unidentified Uncertain

Low confidence TM0039 6 August 2026 · 10:45 5 frames
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Angles captured. Five frames — two looking directly into the funnel from the side, and two wide shots from up the slope showing two fruitbodies several paces apart, which is how the size of the colony becomes clear.

Morphology

At least two fruitbodies scattered across the slope. Large and robust, cap 12–15 cm, pale buff to tan, deeply and irregularly funnel-shaped with a torn, wavy, upturned margin. Gills cream, thick, well spaced, strongly forked and running a long way down the stipe. Stipe short and very stout, off-white. The whole fruitbody looks tough rather than fragile, and is somewhat weathered.

Habitat & substrate

Emerging from litter and rotting wood at the base of a stump or buried log.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

The first pair offered was Clitocybe or Lactarius; neither survives the underside. The fertile surface is thick, distant, fold-like and tough — wrong for Clitocybe's crowded thin gills, unremarked in Lactarius — and a mycorrhizal milkcap should not fruit from rotten wood. Weathered Hygrophoropsis (forked folds) and the gomphoid funnels are nearer the mark. The state of the material blocks a real determination.

Notes

Corrected. Frame #4181 was originally filed with the rosy-capped milkcap (TM0037); it is in fact a second fruitbody of this species further down the slope, which also establishes that this is a colony rather than a single mushroom. Corrected. The Clitocybe / Lactarius pair is withdrawn; neither matches the fold-like distant hymenophore, and the substrate contradicted half of it.

Found at Elm St area, Leominster, MA on Thursday, 6 August 2026 at 10:45. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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