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White cap in leaf litter
Unidentified agaric Uncertain
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.
To confirm this identification
Everything. This is the thinnest record in the guide.
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 Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary, 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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