Tumbling puffball
Bovista plumbea
Genus Bovista. Family Agaricaceae. Order Agaricales.
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Description
Bovista plumbea, commonly known as the tumbling puffball, tumbleball or paltry puffball, is a small puffball mushroom. It is white when young and greyish in age, and is attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium. It is easily confused with immature Bovista dermoxantha and is common in western Europe.
Traits
- Edibility
- Edible
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Photographs
Giacomo Bresadola / Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Links
Source: Wikipedia