Leopard Earthball - Scleroderma areolatum
Approximately 2 to 5 cm across. The skin is smooth and creamy yellow in colour whilst the spots are brownish, numerous and rather like those of a leopard. The spores are purple-grey or blackish.
On the ground, often under oak or other trees, and frequently near woodland edge.
Late summer and autumn.
Usually occurs in groups.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland, though less common than Scleroderma citrinum.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
2 September 2013
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 September 2013
specimen examined
Graham Calow
Sapcote
2 September 2013
specimen examined
David Nicholls
Brocks Hill Country Park
25 September 2019
AJ Cann
Knighton
23 September 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- Leopard-Spotted Earthball, Leopard Earthball
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Boletales
- Family:
- Sclerodermataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 11
- First record:
- 24/09/2013 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 25/09/2019 (Nicholls, David)
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Saharima Roenisch
Field adjacent to Stoughton Lane
02 September 2017
Steve Mathers
Beacon Hill CP
05 October 2016
Graham Calow
Sapcote
24 September 2013
specimen examined
