Mama Rosa, a giant troll sculpture, has been unveiled at the grand opening of Firefly Grove Park in Wauwatosa, transforming ...

In 2025, the Museum & Archives of Vernon marks 75 years of preserving and sharing the stories of this region. Its legacy ...

Nearly a third of fungi species assessed by international ... Red List Authority Coordinator of the IUCN SSC Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball Specialist Group. “As we lose fungi, we impoverish ...

The Giant Western Puffball is a large, round mushroom that can grow to ... Colorado boasts over 2,000 species of mushrooms, ranging from delicious edibles like morels and chanterelles to highly toxic ...

When a giant puffball mushroom breaks or withers, the spores are released into the environment for reproduction. Giant puffball identification is easy. These mushrooms are smooth, white ...

‘So, make sure you’re confident in your identification ... One of my most exciting finds was a large patch of giant puffball mushrooms (Calvatia gigantea). These impressive fungi can grow ...

you know that some edible species can be easily confused with poisonous doppelgangers. But after first spotting a giant puffball mushroom, the thing you’re most likely to confuse it with is a ...

Thinking at first that it was garbage, Minnitt soon realized she'd found an extremely large puffball ... the mushroom when she got to the house, then went to work transforming the giant fungi ...

mushroom in 2017. "A giant puffball is the most easily recognisable 'forageable' mushroom," she said. "It looks like something from another planet, they are so weird." The amateur mycologist ...

Considered a rare find by many mushroom hunters, the giant puffball rewards the patient forager with plenty ... or sites of special scientific importance (SSSI). Some species are also given special ...