When: 2013-07-05
Collection location: Natrona Co., Wyoming, USA [Click for map]
No specimen available
Notes:
We found this earthstar in a dry wash under desert scrub.
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| Promising | 2.0 | 5.98 | 1 | (shroomydan) | |||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
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| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.71 | 57.12% | |||||||
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beautiful and a question
By: Christian (Christian Schwarz)
2013-07-08 15:59:07 CDT (-0500)
Nice fruitbody!
Did you check to see if it was hygroscopic at all? A few Geastrum are
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Hi Christian,
I did not check to see if this mushroom was hygroscopic, but a different little Geastrum I found in similar habitat probably was. That other specimen was spread out when I found it in the rain, but the rays of the “star” folded back into a sphere when it dried out.
The fruit body in this observation was dry when we found it, and it went into the collection box dry. I should have an expert ID and an herbarium number for this one in a few days.