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Colorado Giant Puffball mushroom

Calvatia booniana

Photo by garylincoff
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Field Notes

Description:

large, soccer-ball size ball-shaped mushroom with a thick-skinned scaly surface; flesh inside pure white when young, becoming yellowish-green on maturing; on the ground

Habitat:

in grassy areas, Telluride, Colorado

Notes:

a good edible mushroom

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PublishedFebruary 25, 2011

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