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White gilled mushroom at dusk
Unidentified agaric Uncertain
Angles captured. One from above showing a white cap, one from below showing brown gills.
Morphology
Cap 6–8 cm, white to pale cream above, broadly convex. Gills brown and close, clearly shown in the second frame. Stipe pale.
Habitat & substrate
Leaf litter, low light at the end of the walk.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
A white cap over brown gills is a useful combination — it rules out the white-spored groups, including the destroying angels, and points toward a brown-spored genus.
To confirm this identification
A spore print to confirm the brown, and the stipe base.
Notes
The two frames were initially logged as separate mushrooms. The brown gills are the most useful single observation on this walk, because they exclude a dangerous group rather than merely failing to.
Found at Massasoit Rd area, Worcester, MA on Wednesday, 12 August 2026 at 18:50. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
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