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Stump Puffballs

Lycoperdon pyriforme

Photo by Lipase
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Field Notes

Description:

According the British Mycological Society L. pyriforme is the only puffball to grow on wood, buried or otherwise; http://www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/mycology/have-you-seen-this-fungus/stump… My guess at the tree ID is Hawthorn sp. Crataegus sp. probably Crataegus monogyna.

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cl no sample location approx.

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