common name(s) : Fen Puffball
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Lycoperdaceae
(unconfirmed synonyms: Bovistella paludosa, Calvatia paludosa)
edibility : discard
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The fruiting body is smooth, spherical, white then red-brown, with a very short or absent stem, not clearly marked from the fertile head.
The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.
It grows on the ground, in peatlands, in the mountains, on a rather calcareous soil.
The fruiting period takes place from July to October.
Dimensions: |
width of fruiting body approximately 2 cm (between 1 and 3 cm) |
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet
Bovista paludosa is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very rare, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Bovista paludosa in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18