As it matures, its flesh turns yellow or brown and powdery due to mature spores. When a giant puffball mushroom breaks or withers, the spores are released into the environment for reproduction.

Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn mushrooms can be a sign that you have healthy soil; they help lawns grow ...

W hen I first started gardening, I used to think mushrooms meant something was going wrong. I’d be out watering the tomatoes or pulling weeds, and suddenly – poof – a strang ...

I have seen giant puffball mushrooms in Idaho, but I didn’t know what I was looking at. I have always found them when they are fully developed and have had ...

Puffball mushrooms are small (1-inch diameter) ... Bird nest mushrooms look like cups (or birds’ nests) that contain little egg-like balls that house spores.

As puffballs mature, their outer layers flake to reveal yellow and green spores. Giant puffball on the forest floor in late summer. (Calvatia gigantea / Langermannia gigantea) on the forest floor ...

Illinois has a ‘state mushroom' for the first time, thanks to these students SB 3514 designates the calvatia gigantea, commonly known as the "giant puffball," as the official State mushroom in ...