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Catalog #:
11650121
Taxon:
Calvatia booniana A.H. Sm.
Family: Agaricaceae
Family: Agaricaceae
Collector:
old_timer
Date: 2018-04-28
Verbatim Date: 2018-04-28 11:36:59 AM PDT
Locality:
United States, California, Cabrillo Hwy, San Simeon, CA 93452, USA
35.623131 -121.155028 +-459m.
Georeference Remarks:
COORDINATE_ROUNDED;GEODETIC_DATUM_ASSUMED_WGS84
Description:
Original observation #11650121 (iNaturalist)
Occurrence Remarks:
Calvatia booniana Western Giant Puffball Pp 447, Mushrooms of California; Desjardin, Wood, and Stevens Globose; 180 mm tall x 180 mm wide Warts; typ < 10 mm tall, pale grey centers. Warts start about halfway up the body, developing from brownish, appressed scales. Gleba; white, soft, like a slightly over-mature Boletus species. Habitat; mowed roadside, short grass. In numbers in nearby pasture. Flavor: light, faintly like a small trout. I.e. a great vehicle for salt, butter, and a bit of garlic. Also: It has been a while since our last significant rain. Our season is advancing. There were no A. muscaria sighted in the woods lately. US Hwy 1, MP 55.50
Rights Holder: © held by the observer (listed as 'Collector') at iNaturalist.org, with some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)
Record Id: 5c877006-620f-40f7-9339-88d79bc9ec0e
Occurrence ID (GUID):
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/11650121
For additional information on this occurrence, please contact:
Ken-ichi Ueda (help@inaturalist.org)
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