A striking cup fungus, typically found, not uncommonly, on damp, mossy fallen twigs and branches from winter to early spring. Lycoperdon perlatum The Common Puffball. At first white to brownish with solid white flesh, the Puffball matures to become a papery sac open at the tip which contains innumerable brown dusty spores. If the sac is pressed, spores emerge from the opening like a puff of smoke. It is common in woodlands and in pastures from summer to autumn.
Puffballs are edible, but only when the flesh is young and white.
A small cup fungus of fallen branches and logs of deciduous trees whose mycelium imparts a striking green colouration to the wood. Such wood, 'green oak', is used in making decorative articles, including those known as 'Tunbridge ware'. Camarophyllus pratensis The Meadow Waxcap, or Buff Cap, a fairly common species. Inocybe geophylla var. A poisonous fungus, found singly or in groups on the soil of deciduous and coniferous woodlands from summer to autumn.