can you describe the fungus?
White colored, pear or egg-shaped puffball with large pyramidal or polygonal warts on its surface.
Calvatia sculpta
Attaining dimensions of up to tall by wide, the pear- or egg-shaped puffball is readily recognizable because of the large pyramidal or polygonal warts covering its surface.
what is calvatia sculpta? A species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae where is it commonly found? Mountainous areas in western North America is it edible? Yes - It is edible when young, before the spores inside the fruit body disintegrate into a brownish powder. who described it first? American mycologist Harvey Willson Harkness who named it? Harvey Willson Harkness initially named it Lycoperdon sculptum; Curtis Gates Lloyd named it Calvatia sculptum what can you tell me about the latter? An American mycologist when did he begin his career? Somewhere after 1877 what can you tell me about his publications? He published 26 issues of 'The Bulletin of the Lloyd Library'; and 75 issues of 'Mycological Notes' what about the former? An American mycologist
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Calvatia sculpta [SEP] Introduction
Calvatia sculpta, commonly known as the sculpted puffball, the sculptured puffball, the pyramid puffball, and the Sierran puffball, is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Attaining dimensions of up to tall by wide, the pear- or egg-shaped puffball is readily recognizable because of the large pyramidal or polygonal warts covering its surface. It is edible when young, before the spores inside the fruit body disintegrate into a brownish powder. The spores are roughly spherical, and have wart-like projections on their surfaces. Originally described from the Sierra Nevada, "C. sculpta" is found in mountainous areas in western North America, and was found in a Brazilian dune in 2008.