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Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricomycetes: Agaricales: Agaricaceae: Bovista plumbea Pers., 1795

Bovista plumbea – Tumbling puffball

Synonyms: Bovista brevicauda, Bovista ovalispora, Bovista suberosa, Endonevrum suberosum, Globaria plumbea, Lycoperdon bovista, Lycoperdon plumbeum, Lycoperdon suberosum.

Common names: tumbling puffball, grey puffball.

Russian names: Porkhovka svintsovo-seraya, Chiortov tabak, Dozhdevik svintsovyy.

Extract from Wikipedia article: Bovista plumbea, commonly known as the tumbling puffball, tumbleball, or paltry puffball, is a small puffball mushroom commonly found in Western Europe and California, white when young and greyish in age. Easily confused with immature Bovista dermoxantha, it is attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium.

Photos of this mushroom from the area of St. Petersburg, Russia

Tumbling puffball mushrooms (<B>Bovista plumbea</B>) on a lawn in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, <A HREF="../date-en/2024-07-23.htm">July 23, 2024</A>
LinkTumbling puffball mushrooms (Bovista plumbea) on a lawn in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 23, 2024
Location on mapsRussia, Saint Petersburg, Академическое, 194064, Политехническая Улица 29о
Tumbling puffball mushrooms (<B>Bovista plumbea</B>) with a cross section in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, <A HREF="../date-en/2024-07-23.htm">July 23, 2024</A>
LinkTumbling puffball mushrooms (Bovista plumbea) with a cross section in Gardens of Polytechnic Institute. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 23, 2024
Location on mapsRussia, Saint Petersburg, Академическое, 194064, Политехническая Улица 29о

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Acknowledgements

Russian web-forums Planeta Gribov, V Kontakte, and Griby Sredney Polosy for learning names of local mushrooms.

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