Designated as a minor chakra, the Earthstar is one of the least known yet most fascinating. Located three feet inside the Earth, it is one of the transpersonal, or out of body chakras. It anchors the body to Mother Earth and the physical realm. It holds the grounding cord and is the source of Life…
Astraeus hygrometricus, commonly known as the hygroscopic earthstar, the barometer earthstar, or the false earthstar.
Geastrum saccatum. Sometimes referrred to as the Nested Earthstar, the fruitbody starts off as an egg-shaped ball with a pointed beak, and upon maturity, the outer skin splits at the apex into star-like rays that spread and recurve beneath the base. Like other puffballs, powder-like spores are ejected in bursts caused by raindrops, or escape more gradually by wind currents blowing across the pore opening. Often found fruiting at base of tree stumps. Widespread across North America.
Hygroscopic Earthstar from Jersey Avenue, Leura, NSW, AU on August 8, 2020 at 02:08 PM by Lucy T
On 30.10.2017 I made my first, of two, 10.5 hour / 520 mile (round trip) drives into Wales to do a search for the rarely recorded Earthstar species Geastrum lageneforme, the Flask Earthstar. Searching the BMS FRDBI database (British Mycological Society, The Fungal Records Database of Britain and Ireland) beforehand, there were only 46 U.K. records from 1822 to 2017 ! This time, a very helpful local lady most kindly took me to the areas that she had seen Earthstars in. That is where the identification problems kicked in. After seeing some old Sessile Earthstars in one area I then saw a total of over 35 Earthstar fruiting bodies in two other small areas. Looking at one group of 3 , to my delight I could immediately tell that they were Flask Earthstars. To me, the other ones looked similar to Sessile (G fimbriatum) and Collared Earthstars (G triplex) but I could tell they were different. On returning home I e-mailed several of my photos to a friend who is an expert in Earthstars and has studied them in the field for 40 years. He hadn’t seen this species yet, but from my photos, confirmed what I thought, that some were definitely Geastrum lageniforme and that the rest looked very much like Geastrum saccatum (a species not yet recorded in the U.K.). The only way to tell for sure was to have samples DNA tested. So, on the 4th November I was heading to another part of Wales to search for the Elegant Earthstar (Geastrum elegans) and decided to return to that site and collect spores and 2 or 3 fruiting bodies/eggs to send to Kew laboratories in London for expert DNA testing. TODAY I received the results back from Kew confirming all the samples/spores were from the Flask Earthstar (Geastrum lageniforme). I was very happy with this, as I can now be 100% confident that all my photos on here that are labelled as Flask Earthstar are definitely this species. There are 19 species of Earthstar in the U.K. and this was the 12th species of Earthstar that I had seen during the 4 months to December 2017. As of today, 28.3.2018 I have only Geastrum Berkeleyi (Berkeley's Earthstar) left to see , but that has not been seen in the U.K. since 2004 , 13 years ago! Mark Joy 28.3.2018
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The geometry of the EarthStar globe corresponds to megaliths (huge stone constructions, e.g. the Great Pyramid) around the world.
The geometry of the EarthStar globe corresponds to megaliths (huge stone constructions, e.g. the Great Pyramid) around the world.
