Asterophora puffball (Asterophora lycoperdoides)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Lyophyllaceae (Lyophyllic)
- Genus: Asterophora (Asterophora)
- Type: Asterophora lycoperdoides (Asterophora puffball)
Author of the photo: Vyacheslav Stepanov
Description:
The hat is about 1-2 (2,5) cm in diameter, at first hemispherical with an appressed curved edge, matte, white, then cracks, covered with a brown powdery coating of cocoa color, later cushion-shaped, with a curved edge, velvety, brownish, cocoa color.
The plates are at first implicitly expressed, then folded, rare, thick, adherent, whitish.
Leg 1-3 cm long and about 0,3 (0,5) cm in diameter, cylindrical, curved, often narrowed, made inside, brownish with white bloom.
The pulp is dense, jelly-like, watery, whitish under the cap, gray-brown, brownish in the middle, with a raw smell.
Spread:
Distributed in July-August in deciduous and coniferous forests, it parasitizes on the old blackened black Podgruzdka (Russula adusta), less often on Skripitsa (Lactarius vellereus), in groups, it is not uncommon.