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Tiny orange mushrooms at a boulder base

Unidentified small orange agaric Uncertain

Low confidence TM0012 31 July 2026 · 18:03 5 frames
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Angles captured. Wide establishing shot showing the boulder, then four progressively closer views.

Morphology

Very small — caps roughly 5–12 mm, bright orange to apricot, convex, smooth. Two or three fruitbodies clustered together plus one isolated. Stipes short, pale orange. Gills not visible in any frame.

Habitat & substrate

Bare mineral soil in the drip line at the base of a large granite boulder, with fine roots exposed. No leaf litter — a wet, scoured microsite.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

Small orange agarics are a genuinely hard group (Hygrocybe, Marasmius, Gymnopus, Xeromphalina, Chrysomphalina). Nothing here separates them.

Notes

Very likely the same colony as TM0025, photographed again the following evening — see that entry.

Found at Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, Worcester, MA on Friday, 31 July 2026 at 18:03. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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