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Tumbling puffball
Bovista plumbea
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Bovista plumbea, commonly known as the tumbling puffball, tumbleball, or paltry puffball, is a small puffball mushroom. It is white when young and greyish in age. Easily confused with immature Bovista dermoxantha, it is attached to the substrate by a tuft of mycelium. It is commonly found in Western Europe and California.
- Family
- Lycoperdaceae
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- Name
- Bovista plumbea
- Slug
- bovista-plumbea
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Family
- Lycoperdaceae
- Genus
- Bovista
- Species
- plumbea
- Wikidata QID
- Q948856
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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