Potato Earthball - Scleroderma bovista
A medium sized earthball being 2 to 5 cm in diameter. This species does not have the ‘leopard skin’ pattern that is common with several of the other common earthballs, but has a relatively smooth to finely roughened or scaly peridium. It is usually brownish in appearance.
Associated with Lime trees and preferring sandier soils.
Autumn.
Widespread in Britain.
Status in Leicestershire and Rutland not known.
David Nicholls
New Lount NR
23 September 2018
David Nicholls
Brocks Hill Country Park
25 September 2019
David Nicholls
Brocks Hill Country Park
25 September 2019
David Nicholls
New Lount NR
23 September 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Potato Earthball
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Boletales
- Family:
- Sclerodermataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 23/09/2018 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 25/09/2019 (Nicholls, David)
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