![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2955/jpeg/27t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) on a wet log on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 5, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3045/jpeg/07t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) on a mossy log on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 21, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3171/jpeg/04t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) on a rotting log on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, June 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3171/jpeg/18t.jpg) Spores of leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) in KOH solution, collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, June 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2022/3171/jpeg/17t.jpg) Spores of leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) in iodine solution, collected in Sam Houston National Forest near Montgomery. Texas, June 6, 2022
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3584/jpeg/09t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) on rotting wood in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 2, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3584/jpeg/10t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum) and Mycena viridimarginata in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 2, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2118/jpeg/07t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum)(?) in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 13, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3575/jpeg/18t.jpg) Leopard earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma areolatum(?)) in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 23, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2104/jpeg/21t.jpg) Leopard earthball fungus (Scleroderma areolatum(?)) on a lawn in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 29, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2118/jpeg/18t.jpg) Dissected leopard earthball mushroom (Scleroderma areolatum)(?) in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 13, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2105/jpeg/05t.jpg) Leopard earthball fungus (Scleroderma areolatum(?)) near a memorial in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 29, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2104/jpeg/22t.jpg) Dissected leopard earthball fungus (Scleroderma areolatum(?)) on a lawn in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 29, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3422/jpeg/01t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista) on Yaupon Loop Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 9, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2540/jpeg/16t.jpg) Polypore mushrooms Abortiporus biennis on a log in deep shade in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2540/jpeg/19t.jpg) Star fibrecap mushrooms (Inocybe asterospora(?)) in deep shade in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2540/jpeg/17t.jpg) Polypore mushrooms Abortiporus biennis on rotting oak wood in deep shade in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 28, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3422/jpeg/21t.jpg) Spores of earthball mushrooms Scleroderma bovista (in KOH) collected on a pipeline in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 9, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3044/jpeg/11t.jpg) Mature ringless honey mushrooms (Desarmillaria caespitosa, former D. tabescens) in deep shade under oaks in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 18, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2267/jpeg/01t.jpg) Symphytocarpus(?) slime mold in deep shade in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 24, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3422/jpeg/20t.jpg) Spores (stacked image) of earthball mushrooms Scleroderma bovista (in KOH) collected on a pipeline in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 9, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2266/jpeg/25t.jpg) Mushrooms Xeromphalina tenuipes (Heimiomyces tenuipes) on pieces of rotting wood in deep shade in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 24, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2362/jpeg/03t.jpg) Dissected earthball (Scleroderma) mushroom in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 21, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3091/jpeg/01t.jpg) Earthball mushroom Scleroderma texense(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 27, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2748/jpeg/15t.jpg) Tough earthball mushrooms Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) on an old road on Lone Star Hiking Trail near Pole Creek in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, August 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2748/jpeg/16t.jpg) Cross section of tough earthball mushrooms Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) on an old road on Lone Star Hiking Trail near Pole Creek in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, August 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2361/jpeg/11t.jpg) Mushrooms Leucocoprinus viridiflavoides (Leucoagaricus viridiflavoides) in deep shade in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, September 19, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3078/jpeg/15t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista)(?) under crape myrtle in College Station Cemetery. College Station, Texas, December 7, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3041/jpeg/11t.jpg) Dissected earthball mushrooms Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, October 16, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3041/jpeg/12t.jpg) Young earthball mushrooms Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, October 16, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2279/jpeg/11t.jpg) Cap of Xanthoconium purpureum mushroom found in deep shade on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest, near Huntsville. Texas, June 2, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3037/jpeg/17t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms Scleroderma texense(?) on a lawn in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, October 12, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3054/jpeg/20t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms Scleroderma texense on a lawn in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, November 8, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3050/jpeg/32t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista(?)) in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, October 29, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3041/jpeg/13t.jpg) Cross section of earthball mushrooms Scleroderma polyrhizum(?) on Winters Bayou Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Cleveland, Texas, October 16, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3455/jpeg/30t.jpg) Spores of corticioid fungus Dendrothele candida from a broadleaf tree in deep shade, collected a day before in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, January 4, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2845/jpeg/09t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista(?)) on a lawn in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, January 6, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1256/jpeg/03t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in oak forest in Dubki Park in Sestroretsk, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2904/jpeg/15t.jpg) Eyelash fungus Scutellinia superba on muddy soil in a deep shade on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, April 11, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3500/jpeg/21t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista) on a trailway near Birch Creek Unit of Somerville Lake State Park. Texas, March 29, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2109/jpeg/09t.jpg) Earth ball mushrooms Scleroderma areolatum in a park of Polytechnichesky Institute (Technical University). Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 2, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1876/jpeg/04t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1872/jpeg/08t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 4, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1872/jpeg/09t.jpg) Black interior of earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 4, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2140/jpeg/10t.jpg) Common earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki Park. Sestroretsk near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 5, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3586/jpeg/37t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista) in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 2, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3054/jpeg/21t.jpg) Rough skin of an earthball mushroom Scleroderma texense in David E. Schob Nature Preserve at 906 Ashburn Street. College Station, Texas, November 8, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2140/jpeg/11t.jpg) Dissected common earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki Park. Sestroretsk near Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 5, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1256/jpeg/06t.jpg) Bodies of Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki Park in Sestroretsk, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3593/jpeg/13t.jpg) Common earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki (The Oaks) Park in Sestroretsk, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 7, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/677/jpeg/18t.jpg) Tough puffball mushrooms with blackish interior (earthballs, Scleroderma texense) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 8, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1256/jpeg/04t.jpg) Mature bodies of Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki Park in Sestroretsk, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 5, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3593/jpeg/17t.jpg) Mature common earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki (The Oaks) Park in Sestroretsk, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 7, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3403/jpeg/04t.jpg) Mushrooms Panus tephroleucus together with Scleroderma texense(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3052/jpeg/18t.jpg) False buffball mushrooms Scleroderma texense in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 1, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1905/jpeg/23t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) near Lisiy Nos, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 12, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1892/jpeg/15t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) near Lisiy Nos, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 3, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2329/jpeg/10t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms Scleroderma citrinum in Tarkhovka near Sestroretsk. West from Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 18, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2548/jpeg/24t.jpg) False puffball mushrooms (Scleroderma) on a side of a sandy road in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2009/736/jpeg/23t.jpg) Deep blue spiderwort (tradescantia) flower in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 24, 2009
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1872/jpeg/14t.jpg) Cut earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) on a tree stump near Morskaya, 5 miles west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 5, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2344/jpeg/23t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms Scleroderma bovista(?) in West Kotlin Nature Reserve in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2345/jpeg/16t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms Scleroderma bovista in West Kotlin Nature Reserve in Kronstadt. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 2, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3416/jpeg/25t.jpg) Small omphalinoid mushrooms Contumyces vesuvianus(?) on a side of Yaupon Loop Trail, under Yaupon, oaks, in partial shade, on mats of creeping spurge, in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1872/jpeg/15t.jpg) Young earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma citrinum) on a tree stump near Morskaya, 5 miles west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 5, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/07t.jpg) Tuff puffball mushrooms (dirty tennis ball fungi, Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1869/jpeg/30t.jpg) Earthball mushroom (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki Park in Sestroretsk, north-west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, July 30, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3444/jpeg/20t.jpg) Earthball mushrooms Scleroderma texense on a lawn in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 16, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2549/jpeg/07t.jpg) Milkcap mushrooms Lactarius subserifluus in deep shade under black cherry, old Maclura and oaks near a pond in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, July 6, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3444/jpeg/21t.jpg) Section of earthball mushrooms Scleroderma texense on a lawn in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, December 16, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2857/jpeg/23t.jpg) Potato earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma bovista) in prairie in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, January 24, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2023/3403/jpeg/05t.jpg) Mushroom Scleroderma texense(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 4, 2023
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3593/jpeg/14t.jpg) Section of a common earthball mushroom (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki (The Oaks) Park in Sestroretsk, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 7, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3593/jpeg/24t.jpg) Close-up of section of a common earthball mushroom (Scleroderma citrinum) in Dubki (The Oaks) Park in Sestroretsk, near Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 7, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2820/jpeg/23t.jpg) Details of deep cracks of bracket mushroom Phellinus badius (Fulvifomes b., Phellinus rimosus group) on a living huisache tree, in prairie, in shade of Yaupon holly bushes, in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 24, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2548/jpeg/25t.jpg) Dissected false puffball mushroom (Scleroderma) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1893/jpeg/04t.jpg) Earthball mushroom (Scleroderma citrinum) near Lisiy Nos, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 3, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/05t.jpg) Tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/06t.jpg) Texture of tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/15t.jpg) Mature tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/14t.jpg) Texture of tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2305/jpeg/15t.jpg) False puffball mushroom Scleroderma texense on a utility cutting in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 11, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/16t.jpg) Cracked surface of tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2162/jpeg/30t.jpg) Common earthball mushroom (Scleroderma citrinum) in area of Lisiy Nos - Olgino west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 21, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2715/jpeg/16t.jpg) Bolete mushrooms Boletus subfraternus in a shady forest in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 27, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2625/jpeg/10t.jpg) Pinkgill mushrooms Entoloma hirtipes on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 7, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2328/jpeg/16t.jpg) Sepia bolete mushroom Xerocomellus porosporus together with earthball mushroom (Scleroderma citrinum) near Lisiy Nos, south from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 17, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2760/jpeg/13t.jpg) Brown brittlegill mushrooms (Russula) in a usually wet area on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 28, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2727/jpeg/08t.jpg) Scarlet waxcap mushrooms (Hygrocybe coccinea) on Closed Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2625/jpeg/11t.jpg) Underside of pinkgill mushrooms Entoloma hirtipes on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 7, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2817/jpeg/17t.jpg) Mushrooms Tricholoma saponaceum or may be T. floridanum at the base of Yaupon holly with a stem going deep into soil in area of longleaf pine savannah at nothern entrance of Turkey Creek Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve. Kountze, Texas, November 14, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2727/jpeg/14t.jpg) Large brown milkcap mushrooms Lactarius psammicola on Yaupon Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 10, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2621/jpeg/01t.jpg) Mature star eathball mushrooms (Scleroderma polyrhizum) on a lawn near Texas Avenue in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 29, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2382/jpeg/27t.jpg) Brown coral mushrooms Ramaria in shade under bamboo in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2767/jpeg/17t.jpg) Golden chanterelle mushrooms (Cantharellus cibarius group) on a side of a sandy path on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 8, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3049/jpeg/18t.jpg) False puffball mushrooms Scleroderma texense on a lawn in College Station Cemetery. College Station, Texas, October 25, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2665/jpeg/24t.jpg) Tropical white polypore mushrooms Favolus tenuiculus (Favolus brasiliensis) on Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 15, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3044/jpeg/25t.jpg) Orange grizette mushrooms (Amanita fulva, A. amerifulva, Amanita sect. Vaginatae) in a dry pine forest with a bulb deep in soil on Caney Creek section of Lone Star Hiking Trail in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, October 21, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/3049/jpeg/19t.jpg) Cross section of false puffball mushrooms Scleroderma texense on a lawn in College Station Cemetery. College Station, Texas, October 25, 2021
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