Calostoma fuscum

Common Prettymouth

The fruit body consists of a more or less globular sac of powdery spores atop a broad stem. The brown spore sac is about a centimetre in diameter and has a star-shaped mouth, initially bright red. At first there is a hemispherical cap over the spore sac and that cap falls off in one piece.

The stem (several centimetres long and 1 or 2 in diameter) looks like a braided bundle of roughened cords and has a rubbery texture (at least initially or in moist conditions).

Found growing from the ground, often in wet forests.

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Species information

• Calostoma fuscum Scientific name
• Common Prettymouth Common name
• Not Sensitive
• Local Native
• Non-Invasive
• 0m to 938m Recorded at altitude
• Machine learning

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