Lycoperdon echinatum Pers.:Pers. |
The fruiting body is spherical or pear-shaped, covered with rather long (3-6 mm) spines, disappearing later to reveal an net-like pattern, chocolate brown, with a short or absent stem, in any case not differentiated from the fertile head. The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature. The spore print is purple-brown.It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil, with beech. The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Distinctive features : brown fruting body with globular shape, covered with 3 - 6mm long curved spines, converging at the tips by 3 or 4; when they fall, the skin forms a reticulate pattern Lycoperdon echinatum is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking . | ||
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