Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Giant puffball mushroom

Calvatia gigantea

Description:

A large white fungus I found in the woods near the Des Plaines river.

Habitat:

Woods

Notes:

Found while hiking the Cook County portion of the Des Plaines River Trail near the city of Des Plaines.

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

1 Comment

nice spotting Camila ,congrats ,thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah :)
I hope you like the site and the community as much we do,there are many features you can explore,the chats for questions and comments on your's and other's spottings and to elp you in the ID process,a blog wich link is in the base of the page,where you can find articls about wildlife writen by our best's specialist's in each field and news about some of our most knowed users.
Normaly spottings are adeed to missions to make easier the acess to other user's,the missions button is on the top of the page there you can find the ones fits better in your case,attention to the range of each mission,there are missions that haved a global name but are local,so you have to see the map of the mission and their you have the range of the mission marked,if is in your residential area ist' good,them there are global missions that you can join freely.For furder info you shoul go to FAQ link that is also in the base of the page
Enjoy your self,see you arround :)

camila.dodik
Spotted by
camila.dodik

Des Plaines, Illinois, USA

Spotted on Oct 27, 2012
Submitted on Nov 6, 2012

Spotted for Mission

Related Spottings

Calvatia Brain Puffball Calvatia Giant puffball

Nearby Spottings

Spotting Bracket fungus Spotting Spotting
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team