Lycoperdon subincarnatum (Ruddy Puffball)


Fruit Body:-  1-3cm Rounded puffball lacking a sterile base i.e. attached directly to the substrate via white myclial threads. Grey-lilac when young becoming brownish, outer surface covered in fine spines forming pyramidal warts that disappear with maturity.

Substrate:- Decomposing wood.

Relatively common. Easily distinguished by its rounded form, grey-purple colouring and lack of sterile base.

 

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