Ragged raincoat (Lycoperdon mammiforme)
Systematics:
- Department: Basidiomycota (Basidiomycetes)
- Subdivision: Agaricomycotina (Agaricomycetes)
- Class: Agaricomycetes (Agaricomycetes)
- Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
- Order: Agaricales (Agaric or Lamellar)
- Family: Agaricaceae (Champignon)
- Genus: Lycoperdon (Raincoat)
- Species: Lycoperdon mammiforme (Ragged raincoat)
Synonyms: Lycoperdon velatum
Exterior Description This is a rare variety and one of the most beautiful raincoats. Back-pear-shaped fruiting bodies with a diameter of 3-5 centimeters and a height of 3-6 cm, a surface covered with cotton-like flakes or whitish patches. With an increase in the size of the fruiting body and a decrease in the water content, the associated cover is destroyed and disintegrated into flat patches that lie on tiny spines. Sheath color can be from light cream to ocher brown. The cover lasts the longest at the bottom of the fruiting body, where a collar bent back is formed. The fruit bodies are whitish in color on the cut, becoming chocolate brown as they ripen. Spherical black spores, which are ornamented with spines, 6-7 microns in size.
Edible Edible.
Habitat The puffball grows less often on soils, in small groups or singly in oak-hornbeam forests in areas with a warm climate.
Season Summer-autumn.
Similar species Due to its characteristic appearance, the mushroom is not similar to other varieties of raincoats.
