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Lycoperdon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lycoperdon is a genus of puffball mushrooms. In general, it contains the smaller species such as the pear shaped puffball and the gem studded puffball. Most of the time they grow from dead wood and...
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Lycoperdon perlatum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This month's fungus is Lycoperdon pyriforme, the wolf-fart puffball ... Like, the giant puffballs, Lycoperdon pyriforme and its relatives are edible if you find them early enough, before the white gleba turns yellow, then green then brown. The texture is somewhat like a marshmallow, or maybe old marshmallow creme.
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Probably the most common woodland puffball in North America, Lycoperdon perlatum is widely distributed and easily recognized, despite the fact that it is very variable in appearance. It grows on the ground, which helps separate it from Morganella pyriformis, which grows on wood.
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The Lycoperdons, or true puffballs, produce within the ball vast numbers of dust-like spores mingled with elastic threads. When the ball is compressed, the rind or peridium bursts at the summit to for... ... The enlarged cells bear usually four Genus Lycoperdon spicules, on the tips of which are the spores. When the plant...
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Photographs and descriptions of the Mushrooms and other Fungi of California, USA ... Lycoperdon perlatum, our most common puffball, is easily identified by its cream to light tan color cap with an apical pore, conical spines which fall off in age leaving scars, and well developed sterile base.
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Lycoperdon nigrescens Wahlenb. Magazin für die Botanik 1: 1. 1794. ... Synonym: Lycoperdon foetidum Bonord.; Lycoperdon perlatum v. nigrescens Pers. ... capillitium Lycoperdon type, elastic, slender, straight to slightly wavy, with occasional Y-shaped branches; capillitial walls, 3.5-4.5 u in width with numerous round to...
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Lycoperdon pyriforme (Stump Puffball) - pictures, habitat and identification guide ... Lycoperdon perlatum is somewhat larger, and it is covered with much larger pearly warts.
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Random stuff about Paghat the Ratgirl's gardens. ... Shown above in an August photo are young Lycoperdon pyriforme Wolf-fart Pears underneath a Pin Oak. A larger species occasionally encountered is L. gigantea which ripen into puffballs as big as footballs.
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Genus: Lycoperdon ... Species: Lycoperdon perlatum Pers.: Pers. First white then turning brown with age.; ... Species: Lycoperdon sp.; A stalked puff ball of grassy places...
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