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Clusters of tan-brown puffball fungi growing on wood mulch. Pear-shaped with narrow base and larger, more bulbous top. No rough texturing on outside. When young specimens are split apart there is no variation in texture or appearance inside (photo 3). Spores are olive-brown and fruiting bodies have a single round to oblong opening through which spores are expelled.
Wood mulch at a playground beneath chestnut oak and red oak trees. Same park as my stinkhorn spotting: http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/736....
Spotted on Oct 3, 2011
Submitted on Oct 12, 2011
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That's just a small portion of the puffball emergence. All together they probably cover 2-3 square meters of mulch at this playground. The kids love stomping on them and "making smoke". Good little dispersers, those children. :)
Impressive colony. :)