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Pale scaly cap on the bank
Unidentified agaric Uncertain
Angles captured. One from above, one from below showing gills and a long stipe.
Morphology
Cap 8–10 cm, pale cream with fine darker scales, broad and flat. Gills pale and crowded, stipe long and slender relative to the cap.
Habitat & substrate
Sandy bank under pine.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
A large flat scaly cap on a slender stipe with crowded pale gills. Not resolvable further from these frames.
To confirm this identification
Ring, stipe base, spore print.
Found at Coldbrook Rd area, Hubbardston, MA on Friday, 14 August 2026 at 10:18. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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