top of page

Puffball

Lycoperdon perlatum

This prolific mushroom can only be eaten when young, to ensure the right age and identification always cut each mushroom in a vertical cross-section to ensure the insides are completely white and there is no sign of the immature cap and gills of an Amanita mushroom

Lycoperdon perlatum aka Puffball mushroom

Dee Shea Himes

Cap

off-white and covered in short spiny bumps or warts when young, develops a brown centered dot in maturity

Gills

not present

Stem

when present thick, short and tapered.  white when young, darkening to brownish in maturity

Spore Print

brown spores will puff out of a hole in the top center of the cap when mature

Companions

fields, gardens, trails, grassy clearings in woods 

Seasons

late Summer through Autumn

bottom of page