Jungle

Field guide No. 1159

A huge cracked puffball has split open to show dark sooty spheres, with more of them lying among fallen leaves under bare trees. The spores have grown past their usual size and intend to keep it.

Oversized black spores in autumn leaves

Puffballs, with a long reach.

A huge cracked puffball has split open to show dark sooty spheres, with more of them lying among fallen leaves under bare trees. The spores have grown past their usual size and intend to keep it.

Field noteA huge cracked puffball spills sooty spheres across leaf litter; puffballs, with a long reach.

Specimen
No. 1159
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A wood of ordinary dust-sized spores.
Nearest existing relative
a split puffball in leaf litter.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking scale