I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool), but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

The giant puffball is large enough to be kicked around like a soccer ball when fully grown. Doing so will help release many of its seven trillion spores. (Clay Wollney) Puffballs are a form of fungi ...

Giant puffball mushrooms (aka: Calvatia gigantea, Langermannia gigantea, Lycoperdon giganteum) are fun to find in the woods in the springtime and into the autumn months. The first time my dog and I ...

The fungus seen here is growing on a decaying pile of wood. The common small puffball mushroom is not an unusual sight, but the captured image of spores bursting forth makes a pleasing photo. Even ...

As has been noted on numerous occasions in this space, everything about a fruiting structure -- from dandelion seeds that become airborne, fruits and seeds that float, fruits that attract animals to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (The Des Moines Register) — Whoa. This thing is huge. It's a giant puffball mushroom. Heidi Anderson, a naturalist with Polk County Conservation in Granger, said the "beach ball-sized ...

Giant puffball mushrooms, or Calvatia gigantea, are a popular and recognizable edible mushroom. Puffballs are round with a white interior and exterior and grow on small, barely noticeable stems. The ...

CHICAGO (WCIA) — Following an initiative led by Wheaton elementary school students, Governor JB Pritzker named the Calvatia gigantea — also known as the “giant puffball” — as the official mushroom of ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Whoa. This thing is huge. It's a giant puffball mushroom. Heidi Anderson, a naturalist with Polk County Conservation in Granger, said the "beach ball-sized" mushroom was found by a ...