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Podaxis pistillaris

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Like many "puffballs," the species can be used to dye textiles, resulting in either a tan or a reddish hue. It requires an alkaline base, and many home dyers use ammonia. Urine was used in former times.
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In Australia, it was used by many desert tribes to darken the white hair in old men's whiskers and for body painting. The fungus was presumably used by many desert
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Hopple JS, Vilgalys R. (1994). Phylogenetic relationships among coprinoid taxa and allies based on data from restriction site mapping of nuclear rDNA.
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to deep reddish-brown with a double wall, truncate base, and apical pore. Older spore measurements have varied considerably. Species from
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Soule, J.A. in press. Ethnobotany of Southwestern Plants. Tierra del Sol Institute Press.
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collections appear to be more subglobose than those seen from the
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The spores are usually 10–14 (–16) by (8–) 9–12 Îžm broadly
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Pers.comm. 1978. Weaver on the Dine reservation, Arizona, USA.
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The species is not poisonous, but is not commonly eaten.
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and other countries, often found on termite mounds in
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Agaricaceae
Podaxis
Binomial name
L.
Fr.
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Mycological characteristics
Gills
hymenium
Cap
Hymenium
Stipe
ring
Spore print
saprotrophic
edible
puffballs
Coprinus comatus
stem
cap
spore
deserts

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