Scleroderma meridionale Demoulin & Malençon |
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Sclerodermataceae Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Sclerodermatales/Sclerodermataceae edibility : poisonous
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The fruiting body is irregularly globular, tough, with a smooth surface, the skin being 3 to 6mm thick and tearing irregularly when mature, white to ochre yellowish, with a short, thick, knotty stem, not differentiated from globular body. The flesh is brownish-black, turning later to powder; The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature. The spore print is brown.It grows on the ground, in Mediterranean pine woods, on sandy soil near the coast line. The fruiting period takes place from September to February.
Distinctive features : globular shape with smooth ant thick outer skin (up to 5mm), torn irregularly when mature to release the spores; dark brown interior, eventually turning to powder; short, thick stem, not differentiated from globular body; in Mediterranean pine woods, on sandy soil near the coasts Scleroderma meridionale is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
page updated on 14/01/18 |