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Scleroderma cepa
Leathery puffball fungus with attractive flaking of the top surface. Skin is always leathery tough. The spore mass (gleba) is compacted (pic #2) for a long time before diepersal.
Suburban park.
Spotted on Apr 19, 2012
Submitted on Apr 19, 2012
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I think this is our most common one here. I've heard that spores are so light that they waft into the highest altitudes and even escape earths orbit. Certainly they've spread to every continent.
Used to find some of this occasionally in the woods up North!