Bovista plumbea    Pers.:Pers. 

common name(s) : Grey Puffball, Leaden Puffball 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Lycoperdaceae  

edibility : discard

potential confusions with Bovista plumbea toxicity of Bovista plumbea genus Bovista  

The fruiting body is spherical, smooth, outer skin falling away in flakes at maturity, white then lead-grey under the outer skin.

The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.

It grows on the ground, in meadows, pathsides.

The fruiting period takes place from June to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  total height approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 4 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Bovista plumbea is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Bovista plumbea in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Bovista plumbea in the forest of Rambouillet



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