This fungus is growing on a hard-packed crushed granite RV pad that gets blasted with afternoon sun. What could be surviving here?
This fungus is growing on a hard-packed crushed granite RV pad that gets blasted with afternoon sun. What could be surviving here?
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This fungus.
27 0 ReplyCentral Texas zone 8b, near the Balcones Canyonlands. Escarpment live oak and Ashe juniper growing nearby.
19 0 ReplyWent ahead and sliced it open. This is not a puffball, based on what I'm reading it's probably an earthball. Might be Scleroderma polyrhizum "dead man's hand" or Scleroderma michiganense "potato earthball." Either way, not going to eat this one!
13 0 ReplyGoogle image search tells me that's either an earth puffball or a piece of bread with black garlic on it.
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Puffballs! Step on them when really dry and they make a satisfying POP under your foot
10 0 ReplyApp on my phone says Hard-Skinned Puffball
9 0 ReplyI get called that all the time in the app on my phone
9 0 Replyare you sure that isn't just a case of your phone dissing you?
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Eat it
9 0 ReplyWas hoping for an ID from an anonymous source on Lemmy first
35 0 ReplyWhether or not it kills you will help us identify it
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Looks like some sort of Bovista (puffball) to me.
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