Lycoperdon molle Pers.:Pers.
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common name(s) : Soft Puffball
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Lycoperdaceae
edibility : edible
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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
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| | Above : distribution map of Lycoperdon molle in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18