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Truffle like fruit through road on tree root , native?

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This was weird driving along and thought it was horse dung but looked to firm, couldnt resist stopping to investigate.

Even weirder was the smooth skin , growing through roadbase linked in with a tree root visible in 1 pic . Maybe about 8 of these things growing.

Cut one open and it looks like a truffle as big as a fist.

Anyone got any ideas?

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Yeah!!!

Awesome find. Pisolithus arhizus, commonly called horse dung fungus, often found near the side of the road.

groovy fungus. And, yep, reckon its native. Not sure about its edibility. not a truffle.

Cheers, Obtuse.

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Funny that you say it looked like a fist, I'm pretty sure another name for it is dead man's fist.

Or wait, dead man's foot...they are both names for different fungi.

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i remember when i was little i used to find these at school camp all the time, when they got to dry and someone bumped them they would pop with spores flying everywhere

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