Scleroderma citrinum

Scleroderma citrinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Sclerodermataceae
Genus: Scleroderma
Species:
S. citrinum
Binomial name
Scleroderma citrinum
Scleroderma citrinum
Mycological characteristics
Glebal hymenium
No distinct cap
Hymenium attachment is not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Spore print is purple-black
Ecology is mycorrhizal
Edibility is poisonous

Scleroderma citrinum, commonly known as the common earthball, pigskin poison puffball, or common earth ball, is a species of earthball fungus.