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Pear-Shaped Puffball

lycoperdon pyriforme

Photo by whirl_up_sea
Published on Project Noah
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Description:

The name "Lycoperdon" = "Wolf-fart". Well, they are puffballs, after all, but I'm not sure how wolves came to be involved.

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PublishedSeptember 24, 2011

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