Scaly Earthball - Scleroderma verrucosum
Fruit body 2.5 to 5cm across, subglobose often flattened on top, tapering into a long, thick stem-like base which is usually prominently ribbed, and yellowish to brown covered in small brownish scales, the thin leathery wall breaking open irregularly above when mature.
On sandy soil in woods or heaths.
Summer to late autumn.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
02 November 2011
Lostash
Fosse Meadows
27 September 2014
Graham Calow
Fosse Meadows, Sharnford
04 November 2015
specimen examined
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Species profile
- Common names
- Scaly Earthball
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Boletales
- Family:
- Sclerodermataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 10
- First record:
- 02/11/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 06/11/2022 (Bell, Melinda)
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Lostash
Fosse Meadows
27 September 2014
Lostash
Fosse Meadows
27 September 2014
Lostash
Leicester Botanical Gardens
17 October 2015
