Giant puffball mushrooms (aka: Calvatia gigantea, Langermannia gigantea, Lycoperdon giganteum) are fun to find in the woods in the springtime and into the autumn months. The first time my dog and I ...

Giant puffball mushrooms, or Calvatia gigantea, are a popular and recognizable edible mushroom. Puffballs are round with a white interior and exterior and grow on small, barely noticeable stems. The ...

Their actual name is straight-up "giant puffball mushrooms," or calvatia gigantea, and foragers, home cooks, chefs, and the environmentally curious alike are all talking about them on TikTok right now ...

You might have seen them on your fall walks or you might have seen them all over your TikTok For You Page, but you certainly wouldn't have missed them. The large egg-shaped puffball mushrooms are ...

Although it seems late in the season, I've had a handful of folks ask me recently about giant puffballs. Earlier this week Post Bulletin staffer Eric Atherton wrote "My son picked one the other day ...

The giant puffball is large enough to be kicked around like a soccer ball when fully grown. Doing so will help release many of its seven trillion spores. (Clay Wollney) Puffballs are a form of fungi ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool) but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

BRAINERD — Move over morels. Step aside chicken of the woods. A different edible mushroom is taking center stage this fall. At least that’s what happened recently for Bay Lake area resident Sheryl ...

Roy Heilman Special to The Free Press Aug 31, 2025 Aug 31, 2025 If you need, I’ll give you a moment to tee up the congratulatory emails, and so you can circle around to shower me with thunderous ...