Talk:Calvatia craniiformis

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Review: October 28, 2013. (Reviewed version).

A fact from Calvatia craniiformis appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 October 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the brain puffball (pictured) is a tasty edible when its insides are still firm and white?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Calvatia craniiformis.

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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")

Made spelling US consistent. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"(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".

Tweaked as suggested. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

pedicel is a dablink

Removed link (no mycology-specific target) and instead glossed definition. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

What are "eucapillitial threads"?

Equivalent to capillitia, trimmed. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"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

Ok now? Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Development" would work well as a subsection of "description".

This section will probably grow in the future, but for now I agree. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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.

Tweaked prose; thanks for noticing the awkwardness! Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Puffballs grow singly to several to grouped" This doesn't quite work; I can't quite put my finger on why.

Streamlined text. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"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.

Will have to dig for this one. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Added it myself- got it from here, and, looking at Google Translate, the alternative title does seem to be a translatioon of the main title. J Milburn (talk) 18:48, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Fungi of Australia? Category:Fungi used in traditional Chinese medicine? (Perhaps neither, not sure.)

Sure, added both. Sasata (talk) 05:11, 28 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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

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]