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Pale mushrooms on one fallen log

cf. Pleurotus Uncertain

Low–moderate confidence TM0100 8 August 2026 · 10:37 4 frames
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Angles captured. Four frames working around the log — base, side and cut end.

Morphology

One log carrying fruitbodies on three faces. On the sawn end, shelving clusters of pale cream to buff fan-shaped caps 2–6 cm with inrolled wavy margins, attached laterally with little or no stipe. Along the side, a row of smaller white caps 1–3 cm. At the base, tight clusters of small white fruitbodies in the litter.

Habitat & substrate

A single large fallen hardwood log, sawn at one end. Saprotrophic.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

Laterally attached, stipeless, pale, with gills running down to the attachment — Pleurotus is the obvious candidate, with Crepidotus and young Panellus as alternatives.

Notes

Originally three entries. One log, one population, three faces.

Found at Goodnow Rd area, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 10:37. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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