Gem Studded Puffball at Acton, ACT
Identification history
| Lycoperdon perlatum | 21 Apr 2021 | Heino1 |
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Herbarium collection HL6453 at CANB
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Heino1
wrote:
21 Apr 2021
The main photo shows a group of mature fruitbodies and the white spots show where the spines have fallen off (see the species' description: https://canberra.naturemapr.org/species/47094). Photo 2 gives a closer view of the apical hole and the pockmarked surface that I mention in that description. Each white 'pockmark' is bounded by a brown line, composed of the very low and more persistent warts. In Photo 3 the spines are fairly obvious on these immature fruitbodies and there's a closer view in Photo 4. Photo 5 shows cross-sections of a mature and an immature fruitbody. The 'foam-packaging' base is clear in the mature fruitbody. If you draw a line between the tips of the arrows, what's on the left would become the spore-producing area in the mature fruitbody. By this stage the fruitbody is no longer homogenous internally, there already being a difference in texture between the tissues to the left and the right of that line.
Heino1
wrote:
21 Apr 2021
Other sightings of the same colony are at Lycoperdon perlatum (Gem Studded Puffball) and https://canberra.naturemapr.org/sightings/4379069.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.108349-35.276938
- Maps ANBG
- Places Acton, ACT
Sighting information
- 101 - 1,000 Abundance
- 1 Apr 2021 07:32 AM Recorded on
- Heino1 Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Puffballs & the like Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Heino1 Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Lycoperdon perlatum
Species information
- Lycoperdon perlatum Scientific name
- Gem Studded Puffball Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 638.2m Recorded at altitude
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- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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