Lycoperdon umbrinum    Pers.:Pers. 



New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Lycoperdaceae  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of Lycoperdon umbrinum
photo gallery of Lycoperdon umbrinum potential confusions with Lycoperdon umbrinum toxicity of Lycoperdon umbrinum genus Lycoperdon  

The fruiting body is spherical or pear-shaped, covered with short (1 mm) blackish-brown spines, grey-brown to dark brown, with a short non-differentiated stem (not taller than the fertile head).

The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature. The spore print is olive-brown.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, with spruce.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 5 cm)
  total height approximately 3.5 cm (between 2 and 6 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Lycoperdon umbrinum is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Lycoperdon umbrinum in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Lycoperdon umbrinum in the forest of Rambouillet



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