Pestle Puffball - Lycoperdon excipuliforme

Northwood cemetery.

 

Go here, www.first-nature.com/fungi/lycoperdon-excipuliforme.php and read the section headed Etymology. Most amusing.

 

This comes with a whole host of Latin aliases;

Calvatia excipuliformis

Handkea excipuliformis

for example. See here for a more thorough listing;

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handkea_excipuliformis

 

 

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