🇺🇸 potato earthball - 🇩🇪 Rotbräunlicher Kartoffelbovist - 🇪🇪 Väike murukera - 🇷🇺 Ложнодождевик порховковый 8/1-28/26
🆔 Scleroderma bovista Fr.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Enclosed within the gleba
ℹ️ Fruit body: Subglobose to flattened, pale straw-yellow, ochre, yellow-brown to reddish-brown, often granular and becoming finely cracked with age
ℹ️ Peridium: Thin, leathery and relatively fragile, ~0.5–2 mm thick; opens irregularly at the apex to release spores
ℹ️ Stipe: Absent, with conspicuous bundle of whitish mycelial cords
🟤⚫ Spore mass grey-brown, dark brown to nearly black at maturity
🌳🌲 Ecology ectomycorrhizal, growing partly buried in sandy, grassy or disturbed soil beneath broadleaved and coniferous trees (oak, pine); solitary, scattered or gregarious; late summer to autumn
🤮 Edibility toxic
📏 Fruit body small, usually ~1.5–6 cm across
📐 Peridium ~0.5–2 mm thick
🔪 Flesh immature gleba whitish and firm, later marbled grey-brown to blackish and finally powdery, outer surface often bruising pinkish
🧪 KOH peridium immediately turns red
👃 Odour indistinct earthy
👅 Taste mild
🔬 Spores globose, dark brown, strongly echinulate and partly reticulate-crested, ∅ ~9–16 µm, with projections up to ~2 µm high; basidia subglobose, 4-sterigmate and rapidly collapsing; true capillitium absent
🔤 Relatively smooth, thin-skinned earthball with a reddish bruising and dark powdery gleba
🇺🇸 potato earthball - 🇩🇪 Rotbräunlicher Kartoffelbovist - 🇪🇪 Väike murukera - 🇷🇺 Ложнодождевик порховковый