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Flies and other insects on top of the foul-smelling
One of the many stinkhorns, which are quite rare in the PNW. Stinkhorns have a ...
deception is irresistible to flies which carry off the olive
Basidiome Up to 25 cm. Sporesack ovoid rounded, peridium with pores. ...
Whitish exoperidium wich when dries gives a cracked or wrinkled surface. ...
Scleroderma is a genus of fungi, commonly known as earth balls.
This species has woody stem, looks like a Tulustoma species when is young, but ...
This is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. A widespread ...
This is a young, soft puffball with warts on the surface. The inside (
to reveal a pinkish-red interior covered with a dark-olive spore-containing ...
mature, they form a mass called a gleba in ...
). As the spores mature, they form a mass called a
gleba (interior) much earlier in ...
a "Gleba", containing a sticky mass of ...
"eggs" are actually seed-like cases, called peridioles that contain the
Spotted in my garden. 2 Small ones, a bigger one of about 30 mm and one that ...
the gleba, this material contains the ...
outer case is disturbed by raindrops or twigs striking it. The spore producing ...
4–8 rays that curl back and expose the inner spore mass (
-red interior covered with a dark-olive spore-containing
Clathrus ruber is a species of fungus in the stinkhorn family, and the type ...
endoperidium, through which the spores can escape. In young puffballs, the ...
slightly flattened and purplish or brownish. It has a chocolate-brown or ...
olive colored conical head. Known as the
cracked, releasing spores; odor and taste untried Gills replaced by a ...
gleba (interior) much earlier in ...
