Where was it?
In the grass near a sidewalk in a Burnaby alley
Characteristics?
Looks like a little potato, but when opened up has lots of black tissue. A thick mass of mycelia is where the stem would be expected to be
Cap shape: dimidiate
Cap margin: none
Cap surface features: slightly areolate
Partial veil features: none
Attachment of gills: none
Gill breadth: none
Gill thickness: none
Gill spacing: none
Gill edges: none
Stem location: none
Stem shape: none
Bulb features: none
Stem surface: none
ID? Scleroderma bovista — Potato earthball
From https://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~biodiv/mushroom/S_bovista.html