Lycoperdaceae Agaricales Basidiomycota Fungi

The principal characteristics of this genus of puffballs and a list of those species found in California with photographs of 3 of them.

• Calbovista subsculpta: Sculptured Giant Puffball - Photograph and information on this particular specimen which grew in British Colombia.
• California Fungi: Handkea - The principal characteristics of this genus of puffballs basidiomycota and a agaricales list of those species found in basidiomycota California with photographs of agaricales 3 of them.
• Calvatia - A fun look at what can be done basidiomycota with giant puffballs besides eating them.
• Handkea utriformis - Photographs of the fruitbody of this species, commonly basidiomycota known as lycoperdaceae the Mosaic Puffball.
• Vascellum pratense - Photographs of an old fruitbody of this puffball agaricales and magnified basidiomycota images of the spores and paracapillitium.
• Calvatia craniformis - Photograph of this skull-shaped puffball.
• Calvatia gigantea - Article by Tom Volk on this edible fungus, the Giant agaricales Puffball, with a photograph of a fairy ring formed of agaricales these fungi, and information on some other puffballs.
• Lycoperdon echinatum - Photographs of the Spiny Puffball and a description.
• Bovista nigrescens - Photograph of the black bovist.
• Calvatia excipuliformis - Photograph of the Pestle Puffball and a description.
• Lycoperdon perlatum - Several photographs of the Common Puffball and an basidiomycota identification guide.
• Bovista plumbea - Several photographs of this globular species.
• Calvatia cyathiformis - Photographs of this puffball when mature and as a dead base after the spores have been released.
• Lycoperdon pyriforme - Photographs of the Stump Puffball and an identification guide.

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