What is Lycoperdon umbrinum?
{{italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Lycoperdon umbrinum'' | image = Lycoperdon umbrinum.JPG | image_width = 235px | image_caption = ''Lycoperdon umbrinum'', found in Gala (Norway) in late August. | regnum = [[Fungi]] | divisio = [[Basidiomycota]] | classis = [[Agaricomycetes]] | ordo = [[Agaricales]] | familia = [[Agaricaceae]] | genus = ''[[Lycoperdon]]'' | species = '''''L. umbrinum''''' | binomial = ''Lycoperdon umbrinum'' | binomial_authority = [[Christiaan Hendrik Persoon|Pers.]] (1801) }} {{mycomorphbox | name = Lycoperdon umbrinum | whichGills = no | capShape = no | hymeniumType=gleba | stipeCharacter=NA | ecologicalType=saprotrophic | sporePrintColor=olive | howEdible=edible }} '''''Lycoperdon umbrinum''''', better known as the '''umber-brown puffball''', is a species of [[puffball]] mushroom in the [[genus]] ''[[Lycoperdon]]''. The species is found in China,<ref name= Zhishu1993>{{cite book |author=Zhishu B, Zheng G, Taihui L. |title=The Macrofungus Flora of China's Guangdong Province (Chinese University Press) |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |location=New York |year=1993 |page=692 |isbn=962-201-556-5}}</ref> Europe,<ref name=Jordan2004>{{cite book |author=Jordan M. |title=The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe |publisher=[[Frances Lincoln Publishers]] |location=London |year=2004 |page=358 |isbn=0-7112-2378-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bFMfytLn3bEC&dq=Lycoperdon+umbrinum&pg=PA358 |accessdate=2010-01-05}}</ref> and North America.<ref name=Miller2006>{{cite book |author=Miller HR, Miller OK. |title=North American Mushrooms: a Field Guide to Edible and Inedible Fungi |publisher=[[Falcon Guide]] |location=Guilford, Conn. |year=2006 |page=455 |isbn=0-7627-3109-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zjvXkLpqsEgC&dq=Lycoperdon+umbrinum&pg=PA455 |accessdate=2010-01-05 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ==Description== The ''L. umbrinum'' has a fruiting body, which is shaped like the top of a pear, with a short, slightly buried [[