Sighting 4582013
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See my earlier comment| Insufficient or inconclusive evidence | 20 Nov 2024 | Heino1 | ||
| Unidentified | 25 Jul 2024 | KMcCue |
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There were many of them in the soil, perhaps a tree of truffle?
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Heino1
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26 Jul 2024
Unfortunately the combination of 'white' and 'roughly spherical' provides almost no information. These might or may not be truffles. In a case like this I'd, ideally, cut one vertically in half and show the inside in a photo. Of course, the ideal is not possible if you don't happen to be carrying knife, scissors, etc. Then I'd carefully run a fingernail across the middle of the fungus at the top to create a small break in the skin. Then I'd look for a tough eucalypt leaf to see if I could use that to cut through the fungus, in a back-and-forth saw-like motion. If that doesn't work the last resort is to gently pull the fungus apart into two halves.
