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  3. ›Higher Basidiomycetes
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  5. ›Agaricomycetidae
  6. ›boletes and allies
  7. ›Sclerodermatineae
  8. ›Sclerodermataceae
  9. ›Calostoma
stalked puffball-in-aspic
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stalked puffball-in-aspic

Calostoma cinnabarinum

Calostoma cinnabarinum is a species of gasteroid fungus in the family Sclerodermataceae, and is the type species of the genus Calostoma. It is known by several common names, including stalked puffball-in-aspic and gelatinous stalked-puffball. The fruit body has a distinctive color and overall appearance, featuring a layer of yellowish jelly surrounding a bright red, spherical head approximately 2 centimeters (0.8 in) in diameter atop a red or yellowish brown spongy stipe 1.5 to 4 cm (0.6 to 2 in)...

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 68153.