Tulostoma brumale    Pers.:Pers. 

common name(s) : Winter Stalkball 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Tulostomatales/Tulostomataceae  

synonyms: Tulostoma mammosum 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Tulostoma brumale
photo gallery of Tulostoma brumale potential confusions with Tulostoma brumale toxicity of Tulostoma brumale genus Tulostoma  

The cap is spherical, white to ochre, with a long stem.

The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.

It grows on the ground, in the dunes, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 1 cm (between 0.5 and 2 cm)
  total height approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)
  width of stem approximately 3 mm (between 1 and 4 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Tulostoma brumale is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Tulostoma brumale in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Tulostoma brumale in the forest of Rambouillet



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