Devil's cigar
Chorioactis geaster · 地星状肉盘菌
Rare肉盘菌科❓ Edibility Unknown
Edibility is unknown and should be treated as poisonous.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Unopened, resembles a dark brown cigar
- Splits into a star shape at maturity, orange-brown inside
- Found only in Texas and Japan, growing on decaying tree roots
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 肉盘菌科
- Hymenium
- Smooth
- Grows On
- Wood
- How Big
- 3–10 cm (overall size)
- Encounter Rate
- Rare
- Habitat
- Dead cedar roots in Texas, USA; dead wood in Kyushu, Japan
Easily Confused With
Collared earthstarOuter layer splits into star-shaped rays around a central ballFun Fact
Recorded nowhere on Earth except Texas and Japan, making it one of the strangest distributions in the fungal world; when it splits open it releases an audible hiss and a puff of spores.
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