Notes: Found under birch, pine, and spruce, close to the roadside. Big suckers, too.
First three photos are of a mature specimen. Fourth is of a partly-opened one. Fifth shows both; they were quite close to one another.
Sixth shows a new fruiting body growing quite close to the previous two, on the 25th. On the 21st, the immature fruiting body from the 18th had hardly changed; on the 25th it was gone, but about four feet away from its spot was the new one. Ground frost probably did in its predecessor.
On the 25th I found a second group of these about a mile away (obs. 11589). They didn’t look exactly the same as these ones, but that might have been due to lighting; they were in a sunlit grassy area instead of beneath threes.
