14 September 2012

Giant "puffball" (Lycoperdon) mushroom


I have seen many of these popping up in the woods on rotting wood in recent weeks, but none as big as this immense one photographed by Judith Huf at the Schlitz Audubon Nature Center in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.

Reported at Wisconsin Butterflies on September 3.

2 comments:

  1. Either those are a miniature hat and pair of glasses or that puffball is about twice the size of a human head!

    BTW, Lycoperdon, translated from Greek, means "wolf farts" :)

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  2. Never eat anything bigger than your head. Thatisall. --A.

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