Talk:Calvatia craniiformis

Latest comment: 2 days ago by Jengod in topic Calvatan

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

Calvatan

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The article mentions a compound named "calvatan". I can find no dictionaries, journal articles or other references to it. Is it a misspelling? Mark (talk) 12:48, 2 November 2024 (UTC)Reply

I am neither a biochemist nor a mycologist but from looking at the article in the cite and also "Antitumor Components of the Cultured Mycelia of Calvatia craniformis" I gather (I think) that it's a polysaccharide (?) believed to be new to science and first isolated in this fungus. My guess is it's been poorly studied and/or they later decided it was the same as some other thing. I am very mildly concerned about the credibility of the journals although I'm not a denizen of the Reliable Sources group so I'm not sure how to check. I'll keep looking. jengod (talk) 17:33, 2 November 2024 (UTC)Reply
It's also mentioned in this 2023 article so I think it's a real, if young, noun:
Species Diversity of Lycoperdaceae (Agaricales) in Israel, with Some Insights into the Phylogenetic Structure of the Family
October 2023
Journal of Fungi 9(10):1038
DOI:10.3390/jof9101038
jengod (talk) 17:41, 2 November 2024 (UTC)Reply