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)

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year 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!

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Mmmm...forbidden black garlic

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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