Battarrea phalloides, also known by its common names such as the Sandy Stilt-Ball or the Desert Stalked Puffball, is a rare mushroom species from the
Battarrea phalloides, also known by its common names such as the Sandy Stilt-Ball or the Desert Stalked Puffball, is a rare mushroom species from the genus Battarrea. Resembling a dead agaric, this unique mushroom is characterized by a typically very tall woody, slender, and shaggy-appearing stem atop which is located a cap-like spore-baring sac/peridium which at maturity ruptures and covers everything near it with rusty brown spore dust Photographed in Israel in November
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Location: Israel
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