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Flammulina velutipes
A large ball or cluster of individual mushrooms, dark-orange to burnt-umber in color on the caps
On a fallen tree deep in the woods
Mushroom-type cluster growing out of a tree in Glendalough State Park, Minnesota October 2011
Thank you for coming to my rescue, LuckyLogan! You're a treasure :-))) Slimy cap? Not sure but I didn't touch them. They appeared a little on the dry or dusty side, not what I'd call slimy to look at...
I've found the species I suggested a couple times, here are those spottings: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/638...
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/427...
The first one has a cluster like yours but yours doesn't appear to have the slimy cap?