Bovista

A puffball at Isaacs, ACT

Bovista at Isaacs, ACT - 16 Jul 2020
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Identification history

Bovista 16 Jul 2020 Heino1
Unidentified 16 Jul 2020 Mike

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User's notes

No sign of star. Brown spores from hole when touched.

2 comments

Mike wrote:
   16 Jul 2020
Thanks Heino. I will have to sharpen my observation powers; I assumed it was a puffed out puffball. Earthfan is shown in https://canberra.naturemapr.org/Sightings/4265730.
Heino1 wrote:
   17 Jul 2020
You probably have a small specimen of Thelephora terrestris between the puffballs. It's the low dark brown, white-edged thing with the wrinkled surface. You can see a couple of sightnigs here: https://admin-canberra.naturemapr.org/Community/Species/Sightings/15639.

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Species information

  • Bovista Scientific name
  • A puffball Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 903.97m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
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