Pear-shaped puffballs

If there's one thing I've learned from the Urban Pantheist's urban-wildlife series, it's that there's an amazing variety of fungi to be found within a short walk of the Muddy River. Today, he discusses pear-shaped puffballs:

... When the fungus is ready to reproduce, clusters of puffballs appear on the top of the dead wood. They have short stems, presumably helping to lift them out of the reach of smaller, lazier insects and slugs, and to give their spores a centimeter boost. ...