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

protist@mander.xyz · 7 months ago

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

thonofpy@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

This fungus.

protist@mander.xyz · edit-2 7 months ago

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

protist@mander.xyz · 7 months 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!

nxdefiant@startrek.website · 7 months ago

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

protist@mander.xyz · 7 months ago

Mmmm…forbidden black garlic

OtisRamflow@lemm.ee · 7 months ago

App on my phone says Hard-Skinned Puffball

essell@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

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

ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

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

frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 7 months ago

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

driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br · 7 months ago

Eat it

protist@mander.xyz · 7 months ago

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

Omgboom@lemmy.zip · 7 months ago

Whether or not it kills you will help us identify it

Pandantic [they/them]@midwest.social · 7 months ago

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

MCHEVA@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

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fullstackhipster@awful.systems · 5 months ago

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