Calvatia sculpta
Calvatia sculpta is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is edible when young, before the spores inside the fruit body disintegrate into a brownish powder. The outer layer of tissue is covered on the outer surface with distinctive long, pointed, pyramid-shaped warts, either erect or bent over.
About Calvatia sculpta in brief
Calvatia sculpta is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is edible when young, before the spores inside the fruit body disintegrate into a brownish powder. The species was first described in 1885 by American mycologist Harvey Willson Harkness, under the name Lycoperdon sculptum. C. sculpta is found in mountainous areas in western North America, and was found in a Brazilian dune in 2008. It may be easily confused with Calbovista subsculpta, a similar puffball that is larger, and has slightly raised warts with a felt-like texture. The outer layer of tissue, known as the exoperidium, is covered on the outer surface with distinctive long, pointed, pyramid-shaped warts, either erect or bent over and sometimes connected at the tip with other warts.
The spores are roughly spherical, thick-walled, 3–6 µm in diameter, and are covered with minute spines or warts on their surfaces. The mushroom is known by several common names, including the “sculpted puffball”, the “pyramid puffball” and the “Sierran puffball” It is also implicated in the formation of fruit bodies and sclerotia, which is a conduit for transporting nutrients across non-nutrient material. C sc sculpta can be grown in the laboratory under certain conditions, under which it is able to grow to pure maturity.
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