Unidentified Australian puff-ball fungi These unidentified puff-balls were found growing on a huge log, possibly beech, in early winter. The colour was a very deep orange, quite unlike the usual Lycoperdon fungi. They appear to have short thick, white stalks and white spores that can be seen on the surface of the lower fungi. Notice how wrinkled the lower putt-ball is, yet it does not seem to have released any spores as yet.
| The close up photo shows the surface of the puff ball to be finely granular and the specks to the left of the next photo are some of these grains falling off.  Sideview of unidentified Australian puff balls |  |
| It is interesting in the last photo that there is no spore stain around the apical hole that seems to have released the spores onto it's neighbour. I wondered if this suggested a rather forceful ejection of spores. |  Apical hole on an unidentified Australian puff-ball |
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