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 ...

What Is a Giant Puffball Mushroom? Giant puffball mushrooms or Calvatia gigantean are medicinal mushrooms that grow on decaying plant material. You can find them near the edges or openings of forests ...

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 ...

Do you remember when you were a kid and came upon a puffball in the woods? How much fun it was to squeeze them and puff out that cloud of spores? I still enjoy doing this. I figure I’m giving 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 ...

You might have seen them on your fall walks or you might have seen them all over your TikTok For You Page, but you certainly wouldn't have missed them. The large egg-shaped puffball mushrooms are ...

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 tree colors and pleasant temperatures bring many Northlanders out for walks in the woods of early October. And there's plenty here to see. Most of us marvel at the reds of red maples, dogwoods, ...

Although puffballs are not really abundant anywhere, I seem to see them in many different environments, from the plains near the Coalton trailhead to meadows above the Mountain Research Station. My ...