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Orange cap with white gills
Unidentified agaric Uncertain
Angles captured. Seven field frames including two held up to the light showing the gills from below, plus four of the spore print.
Morphology
Cap 6–8 cm, orange-ochre, smooth, flattening with age. Gills white to cream, close, and clearly free of the stipe — very well shown in the backlit frames. Stipe pale and slender.
Habitat & substrate
Green low herbs and litter under mixed canopy.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
White gills under an orange cap, with the gills free of the stipe. The backlit frames are the most informative photographs on the walk. White, clearly free gills under an orange cap on a slender pale stipe is also the profile of the Amanita frostiana / flavoconia group, and that possibility stands until the base is excavated and the print is read.
To confirm this identification
Read spore print card 1 — the print exists and its colour has not yet been written into this entry. A white print over free gills makes Amanita the working hypothesis. Excavate the base of the next one.
Notes
Spore print taken (card 1). Treat with caution. If this is an Amanita, it belongs to a toxic group.
Found at Coldbrook Rd area, Hubbardston, MA on Friday, 14 August 2026 at 11:04. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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