1 suppressed
Identification history
| Calvatia cyathiformis | 9 May 2024 | Heino1 | ||
| Unidentified | 8 May 2024 | Paul4K |
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User's notes
I'm guessing, no gills or other definable structures under a very 'leathery ' cap.
2 comments
Heino1
wrote:
9 May 2024
What you have is the base, all that's left after the spores have been dispersed. Initially there would have been a more-or-less spherical , powdery mass of spores above the base, encased within a fragile ski. That skin broke up and fell away in patches to expose the spores and allow easy wind dispersal. Before the skin started to break up the whole structure would have been about the size of your fist.
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 7 May 2024 03:03 PM Recorded on
- Paul4K Recorded by
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Fungi Puffballs & the like Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Paul4K Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Calvatia cyathiformis Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 916.77m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Verified by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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