BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Bovista plumbea Pers., 1796 (Grey Puffball, Lead Balloon)
| Notes (MWS) | A small puffball (usually no more than an inch in diameter) which is white when young becoming darker as it matures until the exoperidium (outer skin) cracks like the shell of a boiled egg and flakes away exposing the leaden grey or brown endoperidium (inner skin). The spores are released through a slightly protruding opening, which can be round, slit-like or irregular. The fruitbody may become loose at maturity and often blows some distance from where it grew. Widespread and very common in many types of grassland including fertilised lawns. |
| British records | 1202 |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Bovista plumbea | Fruitbody | 10 October 2004 | West Kent | England | 2 | 9 | |
| Bovista plumbea | Fruitbody | 20 November 1999 | North Wiltshire | England | 1 | ||
| Bovista plumbea | Fruitbody | 19 October 1998 | Berks | England | 7 | 8 | |
| Bovista plumbea | Fruitbody | 17 October 1979 | North Hampshire | England | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Bovista plumbea may be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Associated with Bovista plumbea:
Bovista plumbea may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
AGARICALES (mushrooms and toadstools) |
