25 August 2008 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Pestle or pear shaped, surface warty, white, warts falling away with age to leave a smooth surface, darkening with age, insides ripening into a powdery spore mass which is released through an apical opening in the thin outer skin, to about 5 cm high Flesh White when young Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Very common Habitat On exposed and buried rotten wood Spore Print Olive-brown Microscopic Features Spores spherical, smooth (3-4) µm Edibility Edible when white throughout Notes Pyriforme means 'pear shaped' |