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Small orange mushrooms on a rotting log

Unidentified small orange agaric Uncertain

Low confidence TM0033 6 August 2026 · 10:38 4 frames
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Angles captured. Four frames of a single fruitbody, ending with a good close profile.

Morphology

A single fruitbody. Cap 1–2 cm, bright orange to apricot, convex, smooth. Stipe orange-yellow, slender, curved, paler and slightly downy at the base. Gills not visible.

Habitat & substrate

A soft, well-rotted conifer log covered in pine needles and lichen. Saprotrophic on wood.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

Small orange agarics on rotten conifer wood suggest Xeromphalina, Gymnopus or a small . Hygrocybe is removed from the earlier candidate list: waxcaps are soil and moss fungi, essentially never on decaying wood — Xeromphalina and Gymnopus hold that niche.

Notes

Corrected. Originally this entry pooled six frames as one find. Frames #4151 and #4152 are separate fruitbodies growing further along the same log and now have their own entries (TM0034, TM0035).

Found at Elm St area, Leominster, MA on Thursday, 6 August 2026 at 10:38. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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