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Giant Puffball

Calvatia gigantea

Photo by Dan Doucette
Published on Project Noah
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43.0904, -79.0861

Field Notes

Description:

about the size of a softball, past its edible prime, lens cap for scale in second photo, can grow much larger than this

Habitat:

in a weedy area behind the Floral Showhouse

Notes:

A fellow coworker showed me this and others nearly completely hidden under an overgrown area behind the greenhouse in the back.

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Comments (3)

When we were children, we would delight in finding these and stomping on them because a powder which was the spores would fly all over the meadows!!
Thanks. Yes, I broke one open where I found them, looks like dark rubber. I still have the one in my spotting. I will take a photo of the inside and add it to this later.
Good photo!! Did you ever break one open?

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