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Common puffball — mossy bank
Lycoperdon perlatum Species
Angles captured. 2 frames of one subject.
Morphology
A spherical white fruitbody 3–4 cm, covered in dense conical spines and warts, narrowed to a short sterile base, with a paler weathered one alongside.
Habitat & substrate
Leaf litter and moss on a bank.
Lookalikes & what rules them out
Dense conical spines on a white ball with a tapered base. Distinct from the earthballs (TM0002, TM0056), which have thick warted rinds and black interiors.
To confirm this identification
Cutting one confirms a pure white interior versus an earthball's black gleba.
Found at Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary, Princeton, MA on Saturday, 8 August 2026 at 09:56. See the full walk for that day's weather and everything else recorded.
Others in this group
Earthballs in leaf litterScleroderma sp. · Oct 11Moderate
Weathered / grazed fruitbodies on an eroded bankcf. Russula · Jul 31Low
Pink-tan capped agaricUnidentified agaric · Jul 31Low
White-capped agaric in litterUnidentified agaric · Jul 31Low
White cap in leaf litterUnidentified agaric · Jul 31Low
Puffball in grassLycoperdon or Calvatia · Jul 31Moderate–high
Fly agaric buttonAmanita muscaria var. guessowii · Aug 1High
White agaric in grassUnidentified agaric · Aug 1Low