Earthstar (Scleroderma polyrhizum?)
The last couple weeks I’ve noticed a series of puffball-like mushrooms with a star-shaped opened outer casing in a sandy area just up gradient from a salt marsh near my house in Bourne. I’m still not 100% sure on the identification, but I think I may have finally identified its genus, Schleroderma, with a potential for it to be Scleroderma polyrhizum. Examples of the mushrooms I found. The bottom picture shows the underside. Scleroderma polyrhizum, commonly called earthstars or earthballs,…