Species:
Lycoperdon perlatum
- Scientific name:
- Lycoperdon perlatum
- Arabic name:
- بيض الحرش لؤلؤي
- French name:
- Vesse-de-loup perlée
- English name:
- Common puffball, warted puffball, gem-studded puffball, wolf farts
- Habitat:
- Grassland and woodland habitats
- Surrounding vegetation:
- Under hardwoods or conifers
- Ecological niche:
- Saprobic; growing alone, scattered, gregariously, or in clusters
- Gills / pores:
- Dimensions:
- Color(s):
- Whitish to very pale brownish when young, brown with age,spine tips often becoming brownish to brown
- Texture, other traits:
- Covered when fresh and young with cone-shaped, wide-based, firm spines
- Kingdom Fungi
- Phylum Basidiomycota
- Class Agaricomycetes
- Order Agaricales
- Family Lycoperdaceae
- Genus Lycoperdon
Fruiting period
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