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(Amanita vaginata) "A man need a vagina ta?" A mycologist with a sense of humor named this.
I'm still working on identification to species.
I know how you feel. As a park ranger at Grand Canyon, it's my duty to describe this remarkable bird and the fact that people caused their extinction, yet our compassion is the only hope they have to survive.
or Pig-skin puffball. Looks like a match, but not good eating!
CorduneanuVlad, it seems quite likely. Thank you!
I don't know if people can eat them, but phainopepla do.
I've never witnessed body dew drinking with Eleodes, but maybe the more humid Baja Pacific Coast would be analogous to the Namib Desert (fog deserts).
Algodones Sand Dunes, Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, CA, USA