Mushrooms List
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Mushrooms List
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Puffballs Family [Lycoperdaceae] 
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| 1st Sept 2010, Scotland. | Photo: © John Brailsford |
Slightly darker than the similar looking Common Puffball |
| 1st Sept 2010, Scotland. | Photo: © John Brailsford |
| This one has released its spores giving it a dusting of white powder looking just like a scrumptious bun covered in icing sugar. According to some, it has an un-pleasant 'gassy' smell, although they fail to say which gas out of the hundreds known, all with very different smells. |
| 1st Sept 2010, Scotland. | Photo: © John Brailsford |
Has darker spines than Common Puffball. |
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Easily mistaken for : Habitat is on rich, free-draining ground, often on sandy but acid soils.
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 Lycoperdon
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nigrescens
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Lycoperdaceae
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Puffballs Family [Lycoperdaceae]
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