Funghi
Lycoperdon pyriforme
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Lycoperdon pyriforme is the pear-shaped puffball—clustered on rotting wood, smoother than gem-studded types, white inside when young. Flavour is mild; texture firm-soft. Growing on wood helps separate it from some ground lookalikes, though ID discipline still requires the white-interior cut. Harvest clusters carefully from logs; cook promptly. Excellent quick sauté. Avoid any with yellow-green spore mass developing.
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Pear-shaped puffballs were noted as wood-growing Lycoperdon edibles in Europe and North America.
Guides emphasised substrate (wood) as a clue for L. pyriforme.
Foragers regularly collected pear-shaped puffballs from urban park logs.
Species remained a standard small edible in temperate foraging curricula.