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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 mix forest of oaks,eucalypthus and pine trees near my house
Spotted on Nov 28, 2012
Submitted on Dec 20, 2012
3 Comments
I thought Melanogaster were subbterranian species like truffles... To me it looks like a Scleroderma species, but it could be one of the many other genera of Puffball/Earthballs.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/puffballs....
Thanks Vlad i'll upload the id latter
It's an earth ball, I would say it's a Melanogaster sp., probably Melanogaster tuberiformis but for this you have to brake it in half to see the interior of the mushroom.