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 ...

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 the ...

Their actual name is straight-up "giant puffball mushrooms," or calvatia gigantea, and foragers, home cooks, chefs, and the environmentally curious alike are all talking about them on TikTok right now ...

The recent rains and moderate temperatures have helped spur a bumper crop of wild mushrooms here in Summit Country, and they are popping up everywhere. We might see puffballs along the local bike ...

There is some great eating out there in the fungal world, and some of the best-tasting mushrooms are also quite safe, with no or few poisonous look-alikes. But every article about edible mushrooms ...

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What Is a Giant Puffball Mushroom? Giant puffball mushrooms or Calvatia gigantean are medicinal mushrooms that grow on decaying plant material. You can find them near the edges or openings of forests ...

ALSO KNOWN FOR HIS WORK ON "STAR TREK" AND "CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND." AFTER SUCH A WET SUMMER MANY PEOPLE HAVE HAD MUSHROOMS POP UP THEIR YARD. THAT INCLUDES THIS HUGE MUSHROOM FOUND IN ...

A mushroom the size of a soccer ball was found in a New Hampshire backyard amid a "banner year" for the fungus. University of New Hampshire home horticulture program manager Sean O'Brien said the ...