Baggy golovach (Bovistella utriformis)
- 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)
Description:
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.