This is a different type of mushroom from your garden variety ... to emerge in all its deadly glory. Another poisonous look alike is the pigskin puffball (Scleroderma) which is more likely to ...

The edges of a crowded parchment mushroom twirl like the hem of a flamenco dancer’s skirt. A pigskin poison puffball releases a gray stream of what appears to be smoke but is really billions of ...

They can be eight to 20 inches wide and tall. While foraging, you may mistake some poisonous puffballs and white mushrooms, such as the deadly destroying angel or Amanita bisporigera, for a giant ...