Lycoperdon pyriforme
A common fungi, Lycoperdon pyriforme is often found in closely grouped clumps, more often than not by the side of the road or footpath. When mature, the spores puff out of a hole dissolved in the top. Just tapping the fungi with a finger is sufficient to see a smokey plume of spores. It seems to be more common in winter.
The fungi look like prickly golf balls when young. The surface becomes smoother and more papery with age.
They are reputedly edible when young - that is, when the inside looks more or less like a marshmallow, with no sign of the olive green spore mass developing.
- Fungi - stalked puffballs, Lycoperdon pyriforme, Bobbin Head walk. On soil, August 2001.
- Lycoperdon pyriforme (immature), in soil, on suburban lawn in great troupes, 4cms across, 3-4cms high, Killara, NSW, Sy
- Lycoperdon pyriforme Twin Creeks Walk, Lindfield, Roseville, Sydney NSW, June 8, 2009
- Lycoperdon pyriforme Twin Creeks Walk, Lindfield, Roseville, Sydney NSW, June 8, 2009
- Lycoperdon pyriforme Base of Mount Allyn Walk, Chichester State Forest, Northern NSW, Australia, July 2010
