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Photo by Allen Hoof
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Field Notes

Description:

clusters of small golden or butterscotch-colored mushrooms

Habitat:

floor of deciduous forest

Notes:

along bank of Yellowstone River

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)

Meik I do not know, but suspect it's probably cottonwood. There's a description in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populus_sect._Aigeiros
Allen, do you know the species of the tree on your picture? It sometimes helps to identify the mushrooms.

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