Nick Upton / Dried, overwintered stalk of Pestle puffball (Handkea excipuliformis), chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, March.

Laurie Campbell / Pestle puffball fungi (Handkea / Calvatia excipuliformis) Argyll, Scotland, September

Philippe Clement / Pestle puffball fungus (Handkea / Calvatia excipuliformis), Belgium

Philippe Clement / Pestle puffball fungus (Handkea / Calvatia excipuliformis) Belgium

Nick Upton / Pestle puffball mushroom (Handkea excipuliformis) group growing on woodland edge grassland, New Forest, Hampshire, UK, October.