Sarcosoma globosum barrels are up!
Text and photo Urmas Tartes
Translation: Liis
Sarcosoma globosum
A warm winter often confronts nature with a choice – either to start development or to wait. While most nature patiently waits for spring, some of the impatient ones have taken action. So today (Friday 10/1) I saw tens of Sarcosoma globosum fruiting bodies in Taevaskoda. All with a fresh, plump spring-like appearance. It seems that the first fruiting bodies had already started to grow in the beginning of the year, because beside the tiniest globes, with diameters of a few centimetres, there were quite large ones with diameters up to about ten centimetres.
It is not a world-class miracle because in mild winters the Sarcosoma globosum has shown itself in January earlier too. Still, a special event without doubt.
Read Erast Parmasto’s story of the Sarcoma globosum:
http://www.loodusajakiri.ee/loodusesober/artikkel258_254.html (in Estonian)
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