Scleroderma at Canberra Central, ACT
Identification history
| Scleroderma sp. | 16 Sep 2014 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Scleroderma sp. | 16 Sep 2014 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 16 Aug 2014 | AaronClausen |
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User's notes
Absolute monster sized Earth Star puff ball things!
1 comment
Heino
wrote:
5 Sep 2014
This is an old Scleroderma, species uncertain. Initially the fungus developed as a thick skin holding a mass of purplish-brown spores. The thick skin splits radially and the sectors then fold out to expose the powdery spore mass for dispersal by wind.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.089386-35.268733
- Altitude 604.3m
- Maps Black Mountain
- Places Canberra Central, ACT
Sighting information
- At least 1 Abundance
- 16 Aug 2014 01:59 PM Recorded on
- AaronClausen Recorded by
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AaronClausen NatureMapr Canberra & Southern Tablelands Fruitbody thick walled, splitting from the top Puffballs & the like Fungi
Species information
- Scleroderma sp. Scientific name
- Scleroderma Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 909.95m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
Record quality
- Images or audio
- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
- GPS evidence of location
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