Lycoperdon molle    Pers.:Pers. 

common name(s) : Soft Puffball 

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

edibility : edible

potential confusions with  Lycoperdon molle toxicity of Lycoperdon molle genus Lycoperdon  

The fruiting body is spherical or pear-shaped, covered with thin warts, disappearing later without leaving any trace, cream to coffee-brown, with a very short stem, not clearly marked from the fertile head.

The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature. The spore print is purple-brown.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, with beech, oaks, birch.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 4 cm)
  total height approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 7 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Lycoperdon molle is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lycoperdon molle in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lycoperdon molle in the forest of Rambouillet



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