The brief videos on the moment that common puffball mushrooms release spores

  Today, I went to a walk to explore the woods as usual. It's feeling like autumn more and more and been getting cold lately. So, I think it might be difficult to find newly emerged Myxomycetes and Mushrooms here.

 What I find frequently these days is the mushroom popularly known as the common puffball and also called various names such as warted puffball, gem-studded puffball or devil's snuff-box. Its scientific name is Lycoperdon perlatum, a widespread species with a cosmopolitan distribution.  

It is off-white with a top covered in short spiny bumps.

This is another one.

This one shows a different surface structure. Multiple spines have joined at the tip.

 Young mushrooms are said to be edible when the inside is white. But I don' t feel like eating.

 When mature it becomes brown, and a hole in the top opens to release spores in a burst when the body is compressed by touch or falling raindrops.

I tried poking the mushrooms with a tree branch. Here's the video.


 The other video is so-called a healing one. Groundwater was dripping from the moss growing on the slope of the forest road. 


 Even though it's been good weather for a while now, water droplets have been dripping continuously. I think the underground water vein might be exposed at this point of the slope?


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