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The purple-spored puffball, Calvatia cyathiformis, is a large saprobic puffball found mainly in grassy habitats such as prairies, meadows, and lawns. Young specimens have a firm white interior and may be eaten after reliable identification, while mature specimens develop a powdery purple to purple-b...

Calvatia gigantea, commonly called the giant puffball, is a large fungus found in temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere. It can grow to basketball size or larger and has no visible cap and stem; when young, its interior is firm and uniformly white. The fungus is regarded as edible only at this...

The pear-shaped puffball, Apioperdon pyriforme, is a small puffball that grows in dense groups on decaying logs, stumps, and other dead wood. Its fruiting bodies are typically pear-shaped or club-shaped and are attached to the substrate by cord-like strands of mycelium. It is widely distributed in t...

Lycoperdon pyriforme, now also treated under the name Apioperdon pyriforme, is commonly called the stump puffball. It produces pear-shaped puffballs, often in clusters, on decaying wood, buried timber, or old stumps rather than directly on ordinary soil. Young specimens have a firm, pale interior an...

Lycoperdon perlatum is commonly called the gem-studded puffball and is found in many temperate woodland and grassland habitats. Its round to pear-shaped fruiting body is white when young and covered with small spines or wart-like projections that can detach with age. As the interior matures, it chan...

Bovista plumbea is a small grassland puffball whose white outer skin detaches at maturity to expose a lead-gray inner layer, found across temperate Europe and North America.

Handkea utriformis, commonly called the mosaic puffball, is a large puffball fungus found in grassland, woodland edges, and other open habitats in Europe and North America. Its rounded fruiting body has a surface that breaks into polygonal flakes as it matures, creating a mosaic-like pattern. The in...