I have seen giant puffball mushrooms in Idaho, but I didn’t know what I was looking at. I have always found them when they are fully developed and have had ...

Calvatia booniana — also known as the giant Western puffball — has a storied history in the West. Hygrocybe conica, or witch's hat, grows under conifers and in grassy areas.

Chimacum man finds huge mushroom in his field “I was so glad I stopped before I hit it.” ...

Until recently, all puffball mushrooms were thought to belong to one group that was given the name Gastromycetes. The "gastro" part of the name means "stomach or belly" in Latin, a reference to ...

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 ...

Common puffballs are saprobic fungi, meaning they decompose dead organic matter, things like leaf litter and wood chips, as an energy source. While there is a giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea ...

Once the puffball ripens, the outer membrane containing the spores becomes dry and cracks open. Wind, falling debris, raindrops, and other agents hitting the puffball cause the spores to pop out.

For the first time, Illinois has a state mushroom, thanks in large part to a group of students from Chicago's western suburbs. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 3514 into law in ...

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 visitor Wednesday in Jester Park.

The largest giant puffball mushroom recorded was more than 8 feet in diameter and weighed 48 pounds, according to Penn State Extension. Share Copy Link. Copy {copyShortcut} to copy ...