Pisolithus at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Pisolithus sp. | 4 Apr 2018 | Heino1 | ||
| Unidentified | 27 Mar 2018 | JackyF |
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User's notes
First photo 27.3 - single specimen by track, whitish, rounded top, somewhat elongated, smaller than tennis ball, no underside or stem visible above ground. Photos 2 and 3 taken 3 April to assist with identification.
3 comments
Heino1
wrote:
3 Apr 2018
Still not fully developed. Possibly (1) a species of Pisolithus or (2) some other fungus akin to a puffball or (3) some stem-cap-gills fungus, but with the stem yet to extend and the cap still to expand. If either of 1 or 2 it may still be there, but now mature and another photo might provide enough information to get an idea of genus. In the absence of any further information I'd have to categorise this as 'inconclusive evidence'.
JackyF
wrote:
4 Apr 2018
Heino1 - Thanks so much. I have just edited this sighting to include two more photos taken today - it is now more elongated but no obvious stem. On edge of a meat ant nest. No others in this spot, but I notice that a meat ant nest about 30m away has a large old fungus by its edge, now reduced to ochre-coloured, powdery, exploded-looking mass. Adding the new photos automatically changed the sighting date to today, sorry.
Heino1
wrote:
4 Apr 2018
JackyF, thank you for the extra photos. Eventually this will turn into powdery spores, with the relatively brittle skin breaking away to expose those spores. At first spores will be present only near the top but then as these blow away, more will mature lower down (to be blown away in turn) and the process will continue. So, unless kicked out or squashed most of this fruit body will disappear, except for possibly a low, spore-less base. When it is mature, that outer skin may remain white or become brown (depending on which species this is).
Location information
- Coordinates 149.102398-35.328421
- Maps Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 3 Apr 2018 10:38 AM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Puffballs & the like
Species information
- Pisolithus sp. Scientific name
- Pisolithus Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 928m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
