Morganella pyriforme    (Fr.) Pat. 

common name(s) : Stump Puffball 

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

synonyms: Lycoperdon pyriforme, Lycoperdon piriforme, Morganella pyriforme 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Morganella pyriforme
photo gallery of  Morganella pyriforme potential confusions with  Morganella pyriforme toxicity of Morganella pyriforme genus Morganella  

The fruiting body is pear-shaped, with minute warts or brown spines (like sand), soon smooth, umbonate at the top, whitish grey to grey-brown, with a short stem, not clearly marked from fertile head.

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

It grows on wood, on tree trunks and roots of broad-leaved (sometimes coniferous) trees.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 4 cm)
  total height approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)

Distinctive features : in dense troops; on stumps or rotting wood, base with whitish mycelial chords

Morganella pyriforme is occasional and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Morganella pyriforme in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Morganella pyriforme in the forest of Rambouillet



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