Habitat: growing in heavily shaded cypress mulch at the base of a raised garden bed that is walled with southern yellow pine. (It's producing a bumper harvest of cucumbers.) Fruitbody: the large, sectioned spore case in the photo has a diameter of 3 cm. Exoperidium a dense reddish-brown fuzz aspiring to a height of 0.5 mm, which is also the thickness of the underlying shell of white peridium. When the fuzz is scraped away by fingernail, an underlying reticulate pattern appears, easily visible at 10x. In spent specimens the peridium remaining after spore discharge is dull ivory and wrinkled but not reticulate. Spore color: olive brown