Grassland Puffball - Lycoperdon lividum
A small puffball with a short thick tapering stem-like base formed of brownish spongy tissue. The fruit body is intially whitish but darkening as it matures, and covered in small conical warts that rub off to leave a net-like pattern on thin papery skin. When mature the spores are dispersed through an small apical pore.
other Lycoperdon species
Photograph in habitat, with close-up of surface ornamentation
Grassland
Autumn, although spent fruiting bodies may persist.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Graham Calow
Sapcote
12 December 2011
det. R Iliffe.
spent fruiting body
David Nicholls
Ratby Church
24 December 2011
det. R Iliffe
David Nicholls
Ratby Church
24 December 2011
det. R Iliffe
David Nicholls
Ratby Church
24 December 2011
det. R Iliffe
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Species profile
- Common names
- Grassland Puffball
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Agaricaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 12/12/2011 (Calow, Graham)
- Last record:
- 24/12/2011 (Nicholls, David)
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