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Key 7
Gastromycetes
(True Puffballs - continued)
Is it larger than a baseball, usually like a
basketball?
Yes |
Is it softball size or smaller? .......
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Yes |
Is it usually 4" - 8", cracked to form
irregular scales?
Yes |
Is it very large - 8" - 10"? ..........
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Yes |
You have a Calvatia
lepidophora |
Is the pouter skin sculptured, cracked in large flat
scales, dull white; grows in the West?
Yes |
Is the outer skin nearly smooth? .........................
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Yes |
You have a Calvatia booniana |
You have a Calvatia gigantea |
Is it grapefruit too softball size?
Yes |
Is it usually not over 2.5" to 6"?
Yes |
Is the skin covered with nearly flat warts?
Yes |
Is the skin nearly smooth, wrinkled to minutely
cracked?
Yes |
You have a Scleroderma
subsculpta |
You have a Calvatia
cyathiformis |
Is the puffball golf ball size?
Yes |
Is the puffball <1" in most cases?
Yes |
Is it round with paper thin skin, very light, easily
detached and blown away?
Yes |
Is it round to oval, not paper thin; remains
attached? ...................
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Yes |
Is it smoky-gray, smooth; odor disagreeable? .............................
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Yes |
Is it chalky-white, covered with
small pointed gray-tipped warts: no odor?
Yes |
You have a Calvatia fumosa |
You have a Calvatia
subcretacea |
Is it dull white; smooth outer
wall persistent; pore formed in age? ....................................
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Yes |
Is it chalky white, covered with small pointed pure
white warts; pieces of outer skin cracking and falling?
Yes |
You have a Lycoperdon
pusillum |
You have a Lycoperdon
candidum |
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