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n. - Genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores.

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Usage examples (5)
  • The largest fruiting body is a giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea), which we can typically see in Ohio as a football-size or watermelon-size mushroom that can grow to 4...
  • We apparently have some fairly knowledgeable mushroom fans around the county, because no less than three people wrote to let us know that the white fungus pictured in Monday's...
  • At our class last week in Columbus, we came upon a little area in the woods with basketball-size snowy-white giant puffballs (Calvatia gigantea) and on Wednesday, the...
  • The largest size was called the Giant Puff-ball (Calvatia bovista).”
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