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White cap in leaf litter

Unidentified agaric Uncertain

Low confidence TM0018 31 July 2026 · 18:18 1 frame
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Angles captured. A single frame from standing height, looking down the slope.

Morphology

Cap roughly 3 cm, white to off-white, convex, smooth, sitting low among oak leaves. No stipe, gills or base visible — the fruitbody is seen only from above and at a distance.

Habitat & substrate

Oak and maple leaf litter on a slope, with a cushion of green moss immediately downhill. Terrestrial, growing from litter rather than from wood — which is what separates it from TM0017.

Lookalikes & what rules them out

Cannot be narrowed. A white cap seen only from above is consistent with dozens of genera, including Amanita.

Notes

Originally filed with TM0017, but that group is a wood-rotting agaric on a log and this one is terrestrial in litter several paces away — a different substrate, so almost certainly a different fungus. Split into its own entry.

Found at Massasoit Rd area, Worcester, MA on Friday, 31 July 2026 at 18:18. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.

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