Calvatia gigantea (Batsch.) Lloyd
Giant puffball

gigantea, gigantic

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Description:
puffball
Fruiting Body: 10-50 cm; attached to soil by rhizomorphs. Spore Print Color: olive yellow to brown. Spores: basidiospores 4-5.5 x 3-5 µm, globose, punctate.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: largest of the puffballs

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very common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on humus on ground

Habitat: woodlands, wooded gardens

Fruiting Season: summer, fall

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Agaricales
 

 

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