FungRadar

Common Puffball in Kaliningrad Oblast: the week ahead

Lycoperdon perlatum

The map below is built from the measurement network. A 2.5 km grid with a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

Today

Common Puffball
Starting

confidence 50%

Flush phase

  1. Quiet
  2. Starting
  3. Building
  4. Peak
  5. Fading

Updated 17 September 2026, 11:22 BST

7 days

Index, day by day

Week's best 48average 47by the weekend steady

Conditions stay poor all week — not worth the trip yet.

  1. Today4717 Sept
  2. Fri4718 Sept
  3. Sat4719 Sept
  4. Sun4820 Sept
  5. Mon4821 Sept
  6. Tue4722 Sept
  7. Wed4823 Sept

Numbers are taken at the measurement point nearest the centre of the region — a real calculation at one place, not an average over the area.

Map

Where to look: common puffball

A field over the measurement network. The colour here is for the leading species at each point, not for this one; a per-species layer is computed for one region so far.

About the species. Edible only when young and pure white inside. Cut every specimen in half before taking it for food. A mature puffball becomes yellow, olive or brown inside and should not be eaten. Young Amanitas can look like puffballs from the outside but show the developing cap, gills and stem when cut open. Earthballs have a firm, dark interior and are not edible.

Common Puffball in Kaliningrad Oblast: where to look

Common Puffball — botanical illustration

Common Puffball: the species in brief

How to tell it

A white to cream, pear-shaped fruitbody covered in small spines or granules. As the spines fall away they leave a fine net-like pattern on the surface.

Where it grows

In woodland, on litter and decaying wood, and sometimes in grassy clearings or beside paths.

In the kitchen

Use only young, firm specimens. Slice and fry soon after picking; puffballs do not keep well.

Nutrition

Low in calories. Nutritional values vary considerably with age and water content.

This is a note about the species, not about what is in your basket. Full card with lookalikes →

What else is out here now

The other species in this region, by today's index.

Common Puffball in neighbouring regions

A regional boundary means nothing to a mushroom, and the next region is sometimes closer than the far side of your own. The index is for today.

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