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False Ink cap
Podaxis pistillaris (L. pers.) Morse
-23.3322, 27.0085
Field Notes
Description:
elongated, shaggy, white toadstools or fruiting bodies; some patches with concentrations of toadstools over areas about 3 x 10m. The caps of old bodies appear to split lengthwise to release brown spores and dry out to desiccated brown remnants
Habitat:
along the verges of a newly constructed road. In places they are emerging directly through the graveled shoulders of the road. They appear in profusion after rain (which does not come very frequently)
Notes:
also seen along the sides of more settled, established sandy tracks but not so obvious due to the existing vegetation. One wonders what the fungus is feeding on along the new roadsides which are composed of sand and gravel with, as yet, no established vegetation
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedApril 22, 2012
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