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False Puffballs
| Does the gleba cross-section consist only of small
chambers (use hand lens); stalk absent?
Yes |
Is the gleba in section with branched, sterile, buff
flesh; fruiting body with an obvious stalk?
Yes |
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You have a Rhizopogon
rubescens |
| Is the fruiting body pear-shaped, greenish-yellow, dry;
gleba in section with branches, buff sterile flesh?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body with an obvious stalk? ...................................
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Yes |
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You have a Truncocolumella
citrina |
| Is the fruiting body 6" - 12" long with a
narrow cylindrical cap 2" - 4"; grows in the desert?
Yes |
Is the fruiting body egg-shaped; stalk barely
protruding or 0.2" - 1" long?
Yes |
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You have a Podaxis
pistillaris |
| Does it grow on conifer wood near snow banks; cap
yellow-brown, viscid?
Yes |
Does it grow on earth, especially in nurseries and
flower beds, cap dingy white, hairy in age?
Yes |
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You have a Nivatogastrium
nubigenum |
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You have a Endoptychum
agaricoides |
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