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Lycoperdon molle – Soft puffball

Synonyms: Lycoperdon atropurpureum, Lycoperdon gemmatum, Lycoperdon umbrinum.

Common name: soft puffball.

Russian name: Dozhdevik myagkiy.

Extract from Wikipedia article: Lycoperdon molle, commonly known as the smooth puffball or the soft puffball, is a type of puffball mushroom in the genus Lycoperdon. It was first described scientifically in 1799 by Dutch mycologist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon. The puffball is edible when the internal flesh is still white.

Photos of this mushroom from the area of St. Petersburg, Russia

Smooth (soft) puffball (Lycoperdon molle) in roadside bushes of willow in Yuntolovsky Park. Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 7, 2017
Zapadniy Skorostnoy Diameter, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia

Soft puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon molle) in Oselki, north from Saint Petersburg. Russia, August 9, 2017
Unnamed Road, Oselki, Leningradskaya oblast', Russia, 188665

Soft puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon molle) in Tarkhovka near Sestroretsk. West from Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 15, 2017
Primorskoye sh., 251, Sestroretsk, Sankt-Peterburg, Russia, 197701

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