Yellow puffball mushroom Bovista colorata in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 11, 2016
Svetlanovskiy pr., 22, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 194223Synonym: Lycoperdon coloratum.
Common name: golden puffball.
Russian name: Porkhovka okrashennaya.
Extract from Wikipedia article: Bovista colorata is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. It is found in eastern North America and northwestern South America. The puffball was first described as Lycoperdon coloratum by Charles Horton Peck in 1878, from collections made in Sand Lake, New York. Hanns Kreisel transferred it to the genus Bovista by in 1964. The golden to orange-yellow fruitbodies are 13–30 cm (5.1–11.8 in) in diameter. Its spores are spherical, measuring 3.5–5 μm in diameter.
Yellow puffball mushroom Bovista colorata in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 11, 2016Svetlanovskiy pr., 22, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 194223
Yellow puffball mushrooms Bovista colorata in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 11, 2016Svetlanovskiy pr., 22, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 194223
Yellow puffball mushroom Bovista colorata in Sosnovka Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 8, 2016Svetlanovskiy pr., 22, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 194223Russian web-forums Planeta Gribov, V Kontakte, and Griby Sredney Polosy for learning names of local mushrooms.
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