Common Puffball in Devon: 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.
43Slow
Flush phase
- Quiet
- Starting
- Building
- Peak
- Fading
Updated 18 September 2026, 11:37 BST
7 days
Index, day by day
Week's best 43 — on Fridayaverage 41by the weekend falling
Conditions are poor: even the week's best day only reaches «slow».
- Today4318 Sept
- Sat4319 Sept
- Sun4220 Sept
- Mon4221 Sept
- Tue4122 Sept
- Wed4023 Sept
- Thu3724 Sept
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.
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.