Earthballs of the earth-speaking flower-like kind
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Near Out Back

Near the edge of the Pt. Washington State Forest, to the east of Eastern Lake, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida in December, 2011, I found earthballs.

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I first found an "earth flower" in 2009. Since then they have not appeared in the same places each year, but have progressively sprung up closer to my home. Here is a chronological list:

1/31/2009 Unnamed DLSP

12/17/2009 Unnamed DLSP

1/24/2010 Round, Star, Fang, String, Flare and Transducer Lakewood strip mall, 30A east

11/9/ 2010 Chapel 30A west, Seagrove Beach

12/16/2010 Earth Speaks DLSP

12/24/2010 Pucker Up and others 30A west

1/7/2011 Excavation 30A west

12/2011 the earthballs on this page, near outback

11/2012 Earth Singing and Tooth, near outback

1/6/2013 Eartha, Pt. Washington State Forest

In fall 2011, I've watched fungi, but haven't reported on them. Generally they have not reappeared in the same places, but similar ones come up in other places. In 2012, some earthballs reappeared in the same swale. See also Puffball Watch. Back to Eastern Lake.

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