Scleroderma meridionale    Demoulin & Malençon 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Sclerodermataceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Sclerodermatales/Sclerodermataceae  

edibility : poisonous

potential confusions with Scleroderma meridionale toxicity of Scleroderma meridionale genus Scleroderma  

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.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 3 and 8 cm)

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 .



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