Vascellum pratense    (Pers.:Pers.) Kreisel 

common name(s) : Meadow Puffball 

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

synonyms: Lycoperdon pratense, Vascellum depressum, Lycoperdon depressum, Lycoperdon hiemale 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Lycoperdon hyemale)  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Vascellum pratense
photo gallery of  Vascellum pratense potential confusions with  Vascellum pratense toxicity of Vascellum pratense genus Vascellum  

The fruiting body is pear-shaped or top-shaped, covered with flakes then soon smooth, leaving no network underneath, white to yellowish, with a very short, very thick stem, not clearly marked from the fertile head.

The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.

It grows on the ground, in meadows, pathsides.

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

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Vascellum pratense is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Vascellum pratense in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Vascellum pratense in the forest of Rambouillet



page updated on 14/01/18