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Scleroderma bovista
an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity,smooth earthball genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
spotted in a forest a few kw from my house
Spotted on Nov 4, 2012
Submitted on Nov 6, 2012
4 Comments
I like its name.
Thanks Arlanda and J for your nice words
nice ones!
Beautiful!