When: 2001-06-10
Collection location: Larch Mountain, Multnomah Co., Oregon, USA [Click for map]
Who: Daniel B. Wheeler (Tuberale)
No herbarium specimen

Notes: Handkea fumosa is a typical spring puffball with thick peridium at fairly high elevation for my area (3400 feet). I have found it with Engelmann spruce, pine, hemlock, Douglas fir, and Noble fir. It may be mycorrhizal, since I find it in the same location year after year. The very thick peridium, powdery gleba when mature, and purplish marbled gleba ensure the only thing it is likely to be confused with is one of the Sclerodermas, especially S. hypogaeum, which I have found at the same time of year but at 1,000 feet elevation. C. fumosa has a rank/smelly odor and is epigeous (above ground), while S. hypogaeum, as the name implies, is usually found underground.

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Proposed Name		User		Community Vote
Handkea fumosa (Zeller) Kreisel		Tuberale		91% (2)
Recognized by sight: Several other collections from the same location have been previously identified as C. fumosa (now Handkea f.) by Dr. James Trappe Used references: Mushrooms Demystified

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Observation Created: Fri Aug 08 14:13:35 -0700 2008
Last Modified: Fri Aug 08 14:13:35 -0700 2008 by Daniel B. Wheeler (Tuberale)
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