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Common Puffball

Lycoperdon perlatum

Photo by Christine Y.
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Field Notes

Description:

Fruiting body shape resembles an inverted pear or a broccoli floret. They have substantial stems for a puffball. Color was tan-brown and it was covered in brown spines.

Habitat:

Growing on the ground next to tree roots and dead wood in a mixed forest

Reference Links:

Lycoperdon perlatum - Wikipedia

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