Scleroderma sp.

Scleroderma at Jerrabomberra, NSW

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Identification history

	Scleroderma sp.	13 Apr 2022	Heino1
	Unverified	12 Apr 2022	Tmac

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Not sure if it a type of fungi, but was under the pictured whatever grass type, attached to its below ground roots, along with that tiny 3mm-5mm red berry looking thing. The plain fungi looking thing was about 2-3cm, one pic shows the inside, broken in half, & felt like a squishy mushroom. Is it likely related to the little red berry looking thing? Is it part of that grass root? or totally separate thing just entangled in the roots?

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Heino1 wrote:

13 Apr 2022

The yellow, squishy thing is the Scleroderma. As the powdery spores mature the inside gets softer and, when mature, the outer skin splits cracks to expose the powdery mass of spores to dispersal by wind. The little red berry looking thing is something different, perhaps fungal, perhaps not. Can't tell.

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Location information

Maps Mount Jerrabomberra Mount Jerrabomberra QP
Places Jerrabomberra, NSW

Sighting information

2 Abundance
Tmac Recorded by
Collections
Tmac Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr 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 936.52m Recorded at altitude
Machine learning

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