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 ...

Giant puffball mushrooms (aka: Calvatia gigantea, Langermannia gigantea, Lycoperdon giganteum) are fun to find in the woods in the springtime and into the autumn months. The first time my dog and I ...

Tis the season for puffball mushrooms. So many of you have posted pictures of the giant white mushroom balls growing in your yards.

IT’S round, white and the equivalent in size to two human heads. To the uninitiated, this giant puffball (y goeden fwg in Welsh) is nothing more than an unidentified fungus – but for those in the know ...

It's easy to understand why Felicia wasn't jubilant when I walked through the door and revealed a bag containing wild mushrooms. After all, picking them is the easy part, while she gets stuck with ...

Whoa. This thing is huge. 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 ...

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 ...

If Liz Landes hadn't spent so much time foraging for mushrooms this year near Haines, Alaska, she might have missed the mycological discovery of the season. "I just happened to look up onto the grassy ...

BRAINERD — Move over morels. Step aside chicken of the woods. A different edible mushroom is taking center stage this fall. At least that’s what happened recently for Bay Lake area resident Sheryl ...

IT’S round, white and the equivalent in size to two human heads. To the uninitiated, this giant puffball (y goeden fwg in Welsh) is nothing more than an unidentified fungus – but for those in the know ...