Baggy golovach (Bovistella utriformis)

Systematics:
  • Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
  • Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
  • Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
  • Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
  • Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
  • Rod: Bovistella
  • Type: Bovistella utriformis (Baggy head)

Baggy golovach (Bovistella utriformis) photo and descriptionDescription:

Fruit body: 10-15 (20) cm in diameter, rounded, flattened from above, fine-grained, slightly narrowed towards the base. The young mushroom is light, white, then grayish-brown, fissured, tuberculate-warty. A mature mushroom cracks, breaks in the upper part, disintegrates, becoming like a wide goblet with torn, bent edges.

Spore powder chestnut brown

The pulp is white at first, soft with a pleasant mushroom smell, then olive-brown, brownish.

Spread:

It grows from the end of May to mid-September (massively from mid-July), on the edges and clearings, in meadows, pastures, on the soil, singly, not often.

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