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Giant Puffball

Calvatia gigantea

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44.1217, -72.5415

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Description:

6-20 inches. White globular fungus (turning yellow-or olive-brown with age, from center onward) attached ti ground by a short cord. They have a powdery spore when stepped on.

Habitat:

open grassy area and woodland edges. This one was detatched and in a just mowed grassy field.

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Nonflowering Plants & Mushrooms of the NorthEastern US
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2013

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