Long-spined Puffball
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum Berkeley & M.A. Curtis
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Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales
Family: Lycoperdaceae
Genus: Lycoperdon
Species:
L. pulcherrimum
Binomial name
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1873)
Lycoperdon pulcherrimum
Mycological characteristics
Glebal hymenium
No distinct cap
Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable
Lacks a stipe
Spore print is olive
Ecology is saprotrophic
Edibility is edible or inedible

Lycoperdon pulcherrimum, commonly known as the long-spined puffball,[1] is a type of puffball mushroom in the genus Lycoperdon. It was first described scientifically in 1873 by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis.[2]

The fruit body grows to 5 centimetres (2 in) wide and tall.[1] It is generally pear-shaped. The larger portion forms the top and is covered by whitish spines up to 6 millimetres (1⁄4 in) long. The stemlike portion is a sterile base which is white in youth, aging to purplish brown; it is often wrinkled.[1] The spore mass is initially white and ages to become yellow then dark brownish.[1] It can resemble a number of other species in the genus.[1]

The fungus is found in the southern United States.[3] Like many puffballs, it is edible in youth (when the spore mass is white and firm) but inedible in age.[1] Also being small and infrequent, it is of little culinary value.[1]

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Arora, David (1986) [1979]. Mushrooms Demystified: A Comprehensive Guide to the Fleshy Fungi (2nd ed.). Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press. p. 694. ISBN 978-0-89815-170-1.
  2. ^ Berkeley MJ. (1873). "Notices of North American fungi". Grevillea. 2 (16): 49–53.
  3. ^ Miller HR, Miller OK Jr. (2006). North American Mushrooms: A Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi. Guilford, Connecticut: Falcon Guides. p. 454. ISBN 978-0-7627-3109-1.
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