Observation 27325: Morganella Zeller (Site ID) (Lycoperdon subgenus Morganella)
When: 2009-10-25
Collection location: Hawn State Park, Sainte Genevieve Co., Missouri, USA [Click for map]
Who: Patrick Harvey (pg_harvey)
No specimen available
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| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 10.78 | 2 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
-1.83 | -61.01% | |||||||
| User’s votes are weighted by their contribution to the site (log10 contribution). In addition, the user who created the observation gets an extra vote. | |||||||||
| Vote | Score | Weight | Users | ||||||
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| I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Promising | 2.0 | 10.93 | 2 | ||||||
| Could Be | 1.0 | 5.21 | 1 | (darv) | |||||
| Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.58 | 52.65% | |||||||
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As I have noticed on another recent post,
By: Dave W (Dave W)
2009-10-28 18:14:12 CST (-0500)
Lycoperdon pyriforme has now been put into Morganella. I gather that all wood inhabiting puffballs have been placed into this genus…?
Morganella is the only puffball that grows from wood (or cone, in this case).
By: Debbie Viess (amanitarita)
2009-10-27 17:32:06 CST (-0500)
they also have finely spiculose caps, a feature that can be seen in your photo.
Growing from a cone?
By: Patrick Harvey (pg_harvey)
2009-10-27 14:16:57 CST (-0500)
It was not attached to the ground by any mycelia that I could tell…so it looks like the cone is the host.
Is it really
By: Irene Andersson (irenea)
2009-10-27 12:54:18 CST (-0500)
growing from a cone, isn’t it just embedding it on the way up?
The cone is where it fruited but is not an obligate host…