Thanks, Ashutosh ji. I further checked up and you seems to be right as per links given for both, as below: https://www.mycosphere.org/pdf/Mycosphere_6_4_4.pdf
https://www.alamy.com/scleroderma-citrinum-fungus-cross-section-image185494840.html http://linnet.geog.ubc.ca/ShowDBImage/ShowStandard.aspx?index=17396 https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/pigskin-puffball-common-earthball On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 17:48, Ashutosh Sharma <ashutoshsharma1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Garg ji, > > Here fruiting bodies are present above soil surface, surface is cracked > and looks soft and leathery as in Scleroderma sp. while the unmatured > fruiting bodies of Astraeus sp. on that page may look close to it but they > are present atleast partly under soil surface and is not leathery and soft > with no cracks on pileus surface moreover we are not sure about the > unmatured fruiting bodies present on Astraeus page, even that might be > Scleroderma sp. and to confirm that we need to see its matured fruiting > bodies. > > Best regards > Ashutosh Sharma > > On Sun 4 Aug, 2019, 5:11 PM J.M. Garg, <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, Ashutosh ji, >> I find inside portion to be different from Scleroderma >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species--fungi/a---l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/boletales/sclerodermataceae/scleroderma> >> as >> per images herein. It does not seem to have any outer layer as in >> Astraeus >> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species--fungi/a---l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/boletales/diplocystidiaceae/astraeus> >> species as per comparative images herein. >> >> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019 at 16:48, Ashutosh Sharma < >> ashutoshsharma1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It is some Scleroderma sp. (Puffballs) >>> Family - Sclerodermataceae >>> >>> Best regards >>> Ashutosh Sharma >>> >>> On Sun 4 Aug, 2019, 4:28 PM J.M. Garg, <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> May be some Astraeus >>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species--fungi/a---l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes/boletales/diplocystidiaceae/astraeus> >>>> species as per comparative images herein. >>>> >>>> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 at 18:41, J.M. Garg <jmga...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Pl. check comparative images at Class Agaricomycetes >>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/species--fungi/a---l/b/basidiomycota/agaricomycetes> >>>>> >>>>> ---------- Forwarded message --------- >>>>> From: Saroj Kasaju <kasajusa...@gmail.com> >>>>> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 15:30 >>>>> Subject: SK2090 01 August 2019 - Mycophyta >>>>> To: efloraindia <indiantreepix@googlegroups.com>, J.M. Garg < >>>>> jmga...@gmail.com>, Ashutosh Sharma <ashutoshsharma1...@gmail.com> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Dear Members >>>>> >>>>> Location: Phedi, Nagarkot, Bhaktapur >>>>> Date: 6 July 2019 >>>>> Elevation: 1647 m. >>>>> Habit : Wild >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> Saroj Kasaju >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> With regards, >>>>> J.M.Garg >>>>> >>>>> 'Creating awareness of Indian Flora & Fauna' >>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jmgarg1> >>>>> >>>>> Winner of Wipro-NFS Sparrow Awards 2014 for efloraofindia >>>>> <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/award-for-efloraofindia> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>>> For identification, learning, discussion & documentation of Indian >>>>> Flora, please visit/ join our Efloraofindia Google e-group >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/indiantreepix> (largest in >>>>> the world- more than 3,000 members & 3,00,000 messages on 23.8.18) or >>>>> Efloraofindia >>>>> website <https://sites.google.com/site/efloraofindia/> (with a >>>>> species database of more than 12,000 species & 3,00,000 images of which >>>>> more than 1,70,000 images are directly displayed). >>>>> >>>>> The whole world uses my Image Resource >>>>> <http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:J.M.Garg> of more than a >>>>> thousand species & eight thousand images of Birds, Butterflies, Plants >>>>> etc. >>>>> (arranged alphabetically & place-wise). 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