MALE FUNGUS IN MEXICO: The pochote (Ceiba aesculifolia subsp parvifolia) is a wild tree species whose seeds are consumed and marketed by the communities of the Tehuacán Valley, Puebla. But this activity has been reduced due to the presence of trees with flower proliferation, rot and fruit deformation, which are recognized as male pochotes. The cause would be the dsporas of a reddish-brown fungus, which probably call it a male fungus.
