Pisolithus arrhizus (Scop.:Fr.) Rausch.
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common name(s) : Dyeball
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Sclerodermataceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Sclerodermatales/Pisolitaceae
synonyms: Pisolithus arenarius, Pisolithus tinctorius
(unconfirmed synonyms: Pisolithus arhizus)
edibility : inedible
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The fruiting body is variable in shapes, resembling horse dung, half buried, with a thin skin, ochre to beige-brown, with a short and buried stem.
The fertile surface is.
The spore print is dark red-brown.
It grows on the ground, in pine woods (more often in the Mediterranean area), in meadows, on sandy ground, on a rather acid soil, with pine.
The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: |
width of fruiting body approximately 8 cm (between 5 and 12 cm) |
| total height approximately 14 cm (between 5 and 25 cm) |
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet
Pisolithus arrhizus is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Pisolithus arrhizus in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18