Scleroderma polyrhizum Pers.:Pers.
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New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Boletales/Sclerodermataceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Sclerodermatales/Sclerodermataceae
synonyms: Scleroderma geaster
edibility : poisonous
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The fruiting body is irregularly globular, tough and rather large, often half-buried in the sand, its skin being very thick thick (up to 1cm) and tearing to form a branched star to release the spores when mature.
The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.
It grows on the ground, in Mediterranean pine woods.
Distinctive features : globular shape with very thick outer skin (up to 10mm), tearing to form a star-like shape when mature to release the spores; in Mediterranean pine woods
Scleroderma polyrhizum is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Scleroderma polyrhizum in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18