I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool), but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

Anyone who has kicked or stepped on a ripe, fungal puffball and seen its cloud of powdery dust knows why it was given this name. The puffs of powder contain millions of spores that serve to scatter ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

Giant puffball mushrooms (aka: Calvatia gigantea, Langermannia gigantea, Lycoperdon giganteum) are fun to find in the woods in the springtime and into the autumn months. The first time my dog and I ...

The fungus seen here is growing on a decaying pile of wood. The common small puffball mushroom is not an unusual sight, but the captured image of spores bursting forth makes a pleasing photo. Even ...

The giant puffball is large enough to be kicked around like a soccer ball when fully grown. Doing so will help release many of its seven trillion spores. (Clay Wollney) Puffballs are a form of fungi ...

Although puffballs are not really abundant anywhere, I seem to see them in many different environments, from the plains near the Coalton trailhead to meadows above the Mountain Research Station. My ...

As has been noted on numerous occasions in this space, everything about a fruiting structure -- from dandelion seeds that become airborne, fruits and seeds that float, fruits that attract animals to ...

The tree colors and pleasant temperatures bring many Northlanders out for walks in the woods of early October. And there's plenty here to see. Most of us marvel at the reds of red maples, dogwoods, ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool), but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...