When: 1993-07-15
Collection location: Pipi Valley, El Dorado Co., California, USA [Click for map]
Notes:
The date is only accurate to the month.
Identified by sight. Collected on a weekend trip up to the Sierra with Phil Carpenter and other friends from the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz.
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1.71 | 57.07% |
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…don’t get sent to the Encyclopedia of Life. This image is too confusing to go there. Ideally I’d add a “Don’t Export” option like for the descriptions, but I haven’t gotten a chance to get back into that code.

Why did you give your own reasonable-quality photo a rating of “Low”?

Mushroom Genus Musical Chairs. The inevitable outgrowth of “publish or perish” as applied to a field that is currently 90% taxonomy, though a growing percentage does seem to be ecological, DNA, or bioremediation/other-practical-apps research these days, so maybe the music will stop for good someday soon. :)

I just checked Species Fungorum and they have Gastropila subcretacea as the ‘current’ name. I was just getting used to Handkea. What’s the story here?

Just from appearance…this puffball looks like Calvatia subcretaceae….but I would have to look at all tissue types to confirm.
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I am looking again at this picture of puffballs in a box – randomly an internet search sent me here – and I think that it probably IS Calvatia sculpta.
If one was cut in half length-wise – that would certainly set this debate straight.
Lycoperdon subcretaceum (now what it is being called – thanks Larsson and Jeppson) does not have a subgleba.
Calvatia sculpta has a large subgleba – almost stipitate.