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Spotting

Description:

Dry puffy ball with smokey spores

Habitat:

Dry rocky ground

1 Species ID Suggestions

Giant Puffball
Calvatia gigantea Calvatia gigantea


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2 Comments

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Hi... Martin its surely Fungi.. not plant organism..!!
Jennifer might got it.. Many mushrooms turn darker shade from pale colour at their juvenile stage.

JenniferPaxton
JenniferPaxton 12 years ago

I have seen older giant puffballs get all brown like the pic shown

MartinSeidel
Spotted by
MartinSeidel

Pennsylvania, USA

Spotted on Sep 6, 2011
Submitted on Sep 7, 2011

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