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Devil's snuff-box
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Copyright: Tadeusz Sikorski (cysorz)
![Silver Star Critiquer/Silver Note Writer [C: 30 W: 3 N: 43]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/s-n-s.gif) (348) |
| Genre: Fungi |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2007-10-05 |
| Categories: Fungi |
| Exposure: f/4, 1/30 seconds |
| More Photo Info: [view] |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2007-10-14 7:42 |
| Viewed: 530 |
| Points: 2 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note [Polish] |
| The gem-studded puffball or devil's snuff-box (Lycoperdon perlatum) is a moderate sized puffball mushroom with a round fruiting body, tapering to a wide stalk. It is off-white with a top covered in short, spiny bumps or "jewels". When mature, they become brown and a hole in the top opens to release spores which are released in a burst when the body is compressed by rain drops, a touch, falling nuts, etc. Gem-studded puffballs are considered to be a choice edible mushroom when young and the gleba is homogeneous and white. They become inedible as they mature: the gleba becomes yellow-tinged, then finally develops into a mass of powdery olive-green spores (Wikipedia). |
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| To tasga: cysorz | cysorz |
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10-18 09:43 |
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- tasga (82)
- [2007-10-18 8:17]
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slightly burned, a different more sideways angle would have been more apropriate, although it reamains a great picture.those mushrooms look so oddly beutifull.thank you for sharing.
