False Puffball - Reticularia lycoperdon
Cauliflower Slime Mould
It starts off as a white globular mass about the size of half a golf ball, and then develops a silver-grey papery skin beneath which the brown spores develop.ÿWhen the seeds have been dispersed all they leave behind is a faint brown 'spore print' patch on the tree bark.
On tree bark.
Spring.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Thornton Reservoir
27 April 2013
Steve Mathers
Beacon Hill CP
15 March 2017
Annie Smith
Charnwood Lodge NR
21 April 2017
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Species profile
- Common names
- False Puffball
- Species group:
- Slime Moulds
- Kingdom:
- Protozoa
- Order:
- Liceida
- Family:
- Tubiferaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 41
- First record:
- 27/04/2013 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 04/04/2024 (Alton, John)
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Hip-Humblebee
Uni. of Leic. Att'nboro. Arb. Knighton
16 April 2015
Hip-Humblebee
Uni. of Leic. Att'nboro. Arb. Knighton
16 April 2015
Annie Smith
Charnwood Lodge NR
21 April 2017
Annie Smith
Charnwood Lodge NR
21 April 2017
Graham Calow
Burbage, Sheepy Wood
16 April 2019
maturing with smoother surface
Graham Calow
Burbage, Sheepy Wood
16 April 2019
young specimen
