Puffball for identification

lipase · #1 (**permalink**) 26-11-2009, 08:55 PM

I've collected three specimens of what I assume is the common puffball mushroom but I'm completely new to this game and wouldn't know the difference between this and the pestle puffball or any other similar puffball.

A group of about 20 of these mushrooms were growing out of the side of a drystone wall holding back what I think must be mildly acidic soil because I'm in derbyshire (new mills) which I think's in the the dark peak area.

ohgreatstew · #2 (**permalink**) 27-11-2009, 09:50 AM

I am no expert but I would go for Lycoperdon perlatum (Common puffball)

fairplay · #3 (**permalink**) 27-11-2009, 10:06 AM

On their own has thrown me completely, and as we are a bit short on the ground with dry stone walls here in a stoneless Suffolk, it would have been nice to see them in situ.
The one on it's own looks more like L.perlatum, but the others seem a bit short, still, as they were all together, I shall take the easy route and go along with L.perlatum.

Neil.

lipase · #4 (**permalink**) 27-11-2009, 10:42 PM

yeah ohgreatstew I'm inclined to agree.
and fairplay; that's a really good idea, don't know why I didn't think of that before. I'm gonna go take some pics, possibly now, and hope there aren't too many people hanging round there to watch me being embarassingly uncool (and/or mentally unsound), taking a picture of some mushrooms in the middle of the road at midnight.