Calostoma fuscum (Common Prettymouth)
The fruit body consists of a more or less globular sac of powdery spores atop a broad stem. The brown spore sac is about a centimetre in diameter and has a star-shaped mouth, initially bright red. At first there is a hemispherical cap over the spore sac and that cap falls off in one piece.
The stem (several centimetres long and 1 or 2 in diameter) looks like a braided bundle of roughened cords and has a rubbery texture (at least initially or in moist conditions).
Found growing from the ground, often in wet forests but in our area it has turned up on the eastern slope of Black Mountain.
Calostoma fuscum is listed in the following regions:
Canberra & Southern Tablelands | South Coast
Species information
- Calostoma fuscum Scientific name
- Common Prettymouth Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 938m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
