Common puffball
Lycoperdon perlatum
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Lycoperdon perlatum
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Agaricaceae
- Under the cap
- Spores inside
- Cap
- No cap
- Stem
- No stem
- Lives by
- Breaking down dead matter
- Season
- Summer, Autumn
- Habitat
- Broadleaf forest, Conifer forest
- Spore print
- Brown, Olive
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- A raindrop or a poke makes it puff out a cloud of spores through a small hole at the top.
- The warty spines on its surface rub off with age and leave a net-like pattern.
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Similar fungi
- Shaggy parasol
Chlorophyllum rhacodes
- Yellow stainer
Agaricus xanthodermus
- Field mushroom
Agaricus campestris
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q545130 · All fungi · All entries