A small mushroom parasitic on other mushrooms, mainly Russula. THe Mushroom Expert.com says: "The powdery cap of Asterophora lycoperdoides is the result of its aggressive reproductive strategy....[It] is ready to survive with or without genetic diversity. Its poorly formed gills bear basidia and produce sexual spores—but the cells on the cap surface also produce asexual chlamydospores, ready to clone the organism, resulting in the orangish brown powder that covers everything. "