Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Boletales: Calostomataceae: Calostoma cinnabarinum Desv.

Calostoma cinnabarinum – Red Slimy-stalked Puffball

Synonyms: Mitremyces cinnabarinus, Scleroderma callostoma.

Common names: Red Slimy-stalked Puffball, Hot Lips, stalked puffball-in-aspic.

Extract from Wikipedia article: 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) tall. The innermost layer of the head is the gleba, containing clear or slightly yellowish elliptical spores, measuring 14–20 micrometers (µm) long by 6–9 µm across. The spore surface features a pattern of small pits, producing a net-like appearance. A widely distributed species, it grows naturally in eastern North America, Central America, northeastern South America, and East Asia. C. cinnabarinum grows on the ground in deciduous forests, where it forms mycorrhizal associations with oaks.

Persian: قارچ خوشدهان سرخشنگرف, Russian: Красноустка киноварно-красная.

Photos of this mushroom from East and Central Texas

Stalked puffball-in-aspic mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) under a boardwalk on a slope of a creek on Sundew Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve. Kountze, Texas, June 23, 2018
815 Co Rd 1910, Warren, TX 77664, USA

Gelatinous stalked-puffball (gasteroid fungus Calostoma cinnabarinum) with translucent gelly coating on Sundew Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve. Kountze, Texas, June 23, 2018
815 Co Rd 1910, Warren, TX 77664, USA

Dissected stalked puffball-in-aspic mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) on Sundew Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve. Kountze, Texas, June 23, 2018
815 Co Rd 1910, Warren, TX 77664, USA

Gelatinous stalked-puffball mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) on Sundew Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve. Kountze, Texas, June 23, 2018
815 Co Rd 1910, Warren, TX 77664, USA

Gelatinous stalked-puffball mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas, November 10, 2018

Gelatinous puffball mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas, November 10, 2018

Gelatinous stalked-puffball mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) on Kirby Trail in Big Thicket National Preserve. Warren, Texas, November 10, 2018
Kirby Nature Trail, Kountze, TX 77625, USA

Gelatinous puffball mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) on a property at 5369 Farm to Market Road 770 near Kountze. Texas, November 9, 2019
5369 Farm to Market Rd 770, Kountze, TX 77625, USA

Gelatinous puffball mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) with a stalk on a property at 5369 Farm to Market Road 770 near Kountze. Texas, November 9, 2019
5369 Farm to Market Rd 770, Kountze, TX 77625, USA

Tomato and Aspic mushrooms (Calostoma cinnabarinum) in Watson Rare Native Plant Preserve. Warren, Texas, October 17, 2020
263 Co Rd 4777, Warren, TX 77664, USA

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