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

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This fungus.

protist@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

protist@mander.xyz · 14 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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

protist@mander.xyz · 10 pts · 2y

Mmmm...forbidden black garlic

Alice@hilariouschaos.com · -1 pts · 2y

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frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 9 pts · 2y

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

OtisRamflow@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

App on my phone says Hard-Skinned Puffball

essell@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y

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

ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

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

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 2y (5 replies)

Eat it

protist@mander.xyz · 36 pts · 2y (4 replies)

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

Omgboom@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Whether or not it kills you will help us identify it

Pandantic@midwest.social · 7 pts · 2y

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

marmotworks@lemmynsfw.com · 6 pts · 2y

I see these occasionally, north of Utopia

MCHEVA4EVA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

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fullstackhipster@awful.systems · 0 pts · 2y

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