Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

earthstar !!

Description:

first thought "earthstar/geastrum", but the inside, where odd for me. After some websearch i came some picture of the "mycenastrum" across. Can not decide, from the inside i go for "mycenastrum", but the shape seems more "geastrum".

Habitat:

After cutting it in half , i suspected to see a spore-sac in a peel, but it was only one wall, and those was leathery, (the common dutch name is: "leather-star")

Notes:

Any ideas ?

1 Species ID Suggestions

EduHerNav
EduHerNav 12 years ago
Geastrum sp.


Sign in to suggest organism ID

4 Comments

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Interesting!!!

EduHerNav
EduHerNav 12 years ago

I do have some ideas: It can't be a Mycenastrum cuz this one don't forms a tip. Also Mycenastrum is quite big (apple/orange size), also, it has collumella, that's a Geastrum's egg, for sure.

AlexKonig
AlexKonig 12 years ago

thx injica , was the first & untill now the last time, i saw some like this!!

injica
injica 12 years ago

Interesting indeed...

AlexKonig
Spotted by
AlexKonig

Heerlen, Limburg, Netherlands

Spotted on Oct 2, 2011
Submitted on Mar 10, 2012

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Hygroscopic Earthstar Sessile Earthstar Barometer Earthstar or False Earthstar fungus earthstars

Nearby Spottings

earth-boring dung/scarab beetles green mold - trichoderma sp ? european hornet orange bonnet
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team