This fungus is growing on a hard-packed crushed granite RV pad that gets blasted with afternoon sun. What could be surviving here? (mander.xyz)

submitted 1 month ago by protist@mander.xyz to c/mycology@mander.xyz

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[-] thonofpy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

This fungus.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Central Texas zone 8b, near the Balcones Canyonlands. Escarpment live oak and Ashe juniper growing nearby.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 14 points 1 month ago

Went ahead and sliced it open. This is not a puffball, based on what I'm reading it's probably an earthball. Might be Scleroderma polyrhizum "dead man's hand" or Scleroderma michiganense "potato earthball." Either way, not going to eat this one!

[-] nxdefiant@startrek.website 16 points 1 month ago

Google image search tells me that's either an earth puffball or a piece of bread with black garlic on it.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

Mmmm...forbidden black garlic

[-] Alice@hilariouschaos.com -1 points 1 month ago

Removed

[-] OtisRamflow@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

App on my phone says Hard-Skinned Puffball

[-] essell@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I get called that all the time in the app on my phone

[-] ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

are you sure that isn't just a case of your phone dissing you?

[-] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago

Puffballs! Step on them when really dry and they make a satisfying POP under your foot

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 1 month ago

Eat it

[-] protist@mander.xyz 36 points 1 month ago

Was hoping for an ID from an anonymous source on Lemmy first

[-] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 month ago

Whether or not it kills you will help us identify it

[-] Pandantic@midwest.social 7 points 1 month ago

But how will we know whether it killed OP or they forgot about the post

[-] marmotworks@lemmynsfw.com 6 points 1 month ago

I see these occasionally, north of Utopia

[-] fullstackhipster@awful.systems 0 points 1 week ago

Looks like some sort of Bovista (puffball) to me.

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