Puffball (Lycoperdon mammiforme)
- Division: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae (Agaricomycetes)
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Lycoperdon (Raincoat)
- Type: Lycoperdon mammiforme (Ragged puffball)
Lycoperdon veiled
External Description
This is a rare variety, which is one of the most beautiful raincoats. Obverse pear-shaped fruiting bodies 3-5 cm in diameter and 3-6 cm high, surface covered with cotton-like flakes or whitish shreds. With an increase in the size of the fruiting body and a decrease in water content, the associated cover is destroyed and disintegrates into flat patches that lie on tiny spines. The color of the shell can be from light cream to ocher brown. The cover lasts the longest at the bottom of the fruiting body, where a collar bent back is formed. The fruit bodies are whitish in cut, becoming chocolate brown as they mature. Spherical black spores, which are ornamented with spikes, 6-7 microns in size.
Edibility
Edible.
Habitat
Puffball grows less frequently on soils, in small groups or singly in oak-hornbeam forests in areas with a warm climate.
Season
Summer autumn.
Similar species
The mushroom, due to its characteristic appearance, is not similar to other types of raincoats.