Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass ... New deliveries of soil or compost can also harbor mushroom spores and lead to a sudden shroom bloom.

"Everybody really liked how if you were to kick the giant puffball, it explodes and all the spores go everywhere, so new ...

The mushroom is a gift to the murder fiction ... In 1994, some Wisconsin teenagers snorted puffball spores in the hope of hallucinating. The spores promptly lodged in their lungs and they ended ...

Other examples are given, such as spores from puffball fungi dispersing in the wind. Earthstar fungi open on the woodland floor in the autumn when drops of rain cause them to explosively erupt spores.