Talk:Calvatia craniiformis

Latest comment: 10 years ago by J Milburn in topic GA Review

ID check

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[1] Has some info on the puffballs found in India. Perhaps the authors would have the expertise needed. Shyamal 09:59, 7 March 2007 (UTC)Reply

GA Review

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Reviewer: J Milburn (talk · contribs) 10:02, 27 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Generally looks very solid.

  • "whitish-gray to grey" Which English are we using, here? (Further down you use "mild odor" and "flavors")
  • "(where it becomes the columnella) where it tapers to a point." where... where...; I'd change "where it becomes" to "becoming" or "where it tapers" to "tapering".
  • What are "eucapillitial threads"?
  • "In the United States, it has been used medicinally by the Ojibwe as a hemostatic agent used to stop nosebleeds,[21] which they used by inhaling the powdery gleba up their noses." This is a rather clumsy sentence
  • "Development" would work well as a subsection of "description".
  • Is "pseudoparenchymatous" a noun or an adjective? The sentence "the outer layer become pseudoparenchymatous" (should it be becomes?) seems to imply the latter, but the definition "a tightly organised tissue where the tightly packed cells resemble plant parenchyma" implies the latter.
  • "Puffballs grow singly to several to grouped" This doesn't quite work; I can't quite put my finger on why.
  • "Hsiao W-C, Wang Y-N, Chen C-Y. (2010). "The investigation of macrofungus in Fong-Huang Mountain". Journal of the Experimental Forest of National Taiwan University (in Chinese) 24 (3): 209–15." Picky, but a full citation would probably have the original Chinese title.

Very strong. I made a few small fixes. Pictures and sources are very good. J Milburn (talk) 10:02, 27 October 2013 (UTC)Reply

Thanks, appreciated! Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)Reply
Great stuff, as ever. Promoting now. J Milburn (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)Reply