Pisolithus arrhizus    (Scop.:Fr.) Rausch. 

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

potential confusions with Pisolithus arrhizus toxicity of Pisolithus arrhizus genus Pisolithus  

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 .
here should be the distribution map of Pisolithus arrhizus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Pisolithus arrhizus in the forest of Rambouillet



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