Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Calvatia cyathiformis | 25 Jul 2019 | Heino1 | ||
| Calvatia cyathiformis | 1 Jun 2019 | KenT | ||
| Unidentified | 28 May 2019 | JackyF |
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User's notes
Several purplish fruiting bodies about 6-8 cm across. Photo 4 is a dry, upside-down uprooted one. Interspersed with another fungi species (separate sighting).
1 comment
KenT
wrote:
1 Jun 2019
It seems that in Species Fungorum and Mycobank databases both Calvatia lilacina and Calvatia cyathiformis are considered legitimate names. I don't know what the supposed differences between these species are.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.099273-35.327653
- Maps Red Hill Nature Reserve Red Hill to Yarralumla Creek
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 25 May 2019 04:04 PM Recorded on
- JackyF Recorded by
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Collections
Fungi Fruitbody walls break away to expose the spores Puffballs & the like JackyF Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr
Species information
- Calvatia cyathiformis Scientific name
- Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Cosmopolitan
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 916.77m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
