(1) The earthstar first keeps its spore packet enclosed in a tough shell of fungus tissue, then splits open at maturity to form a star-shaped platform. As it dries, the round puffball rises up slightly and then spits out its spores.(2) Although some of these puffball mushrooms are edible, people should consult an expert before eating them.(3) Fungi fan Kevin is struggling to make room for this mushroom - a whopping wild puffball he plucked from a secret location.(4) This is an example of a peridium, a rather vague term that includes any shell or membrane that encloses spores - for example, the visible outer membrane of a puffball .(5) she chose a multicolour puffball creation for her wedding(6) Any fungus of obviously non-mushroom shape, such as the puffball , morel, or truffle, is usually referred to under its own name; but the general remarks on mushrooms here refer to these equally.(7) There had been a puffball big enough for ten-pin bowling.(8) For some fungi, reproduction proceeds by way of mushrooms, which bear spores on their gills, or by way of puffballs - the relatively large structures that produce millions of spores in dry, powdery masses, to be whisked away by a breeze.(9) This class contains the mushrooms, shelf fungi, puffballs , and a variety of other macrofungi.(10) This under ripe onion is harvested green, when the puffballs or blossoms are blooming.(11) The fungal kingdom consists of macroscopic fungi (mushrooms, puffballs , and gills) vs. microscopic fungi (yeasts and hyphae).(12) For gastronomic purposes, however, puffballs must be gathered long before they have reached this stage.(13) The puffballs you have here are probably a little past their best.(14) For the ancient Greeks and Romans, after a thunderbolt struck on the ground, mushrooms (single or gregarious, sometimes as fairy rings) such as boleti, puffballs , and tubers arose from it.(15) This is when I took pictures, measured, and took a soil sample and about 5 days later a second ring appeared with subsequent growing of puffballs .(16) So-called earthstar puffballs (genus Geastrum) have adapted their shapes to literally ‘puff’ their spores out from a single hole.
