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Onion Earthball

Scleroderma cepa

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 3, February 3, March 25, April 67, May 150, June 156, July 83, August 24, September 13, October 1, November 2, December 4.
United States1,253
Australia531
Alaska425
Victoria293
Canada135
Ontario114
California96
Tasmania85
New Jersey78
New York75

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Human edibleListed as edible by a harvested source. This is a research trait, not foraging advice.FungiTastic metadata
  • Earthball fungus formDescends from a fungal lineage whose members are typically earthballs.Inferred from its group

Edibility, toxicity and medicinal traits are records from datasets, not advice. Never eat, handle or use a wild species on the strength of an app.

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
Orderboletes and allies · Boletales
FamilySclerodermataceae
Genusearthballs · Scleroderma

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