Sentence examples for giant puffball from inspiring English sources

The giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea).

I've learned that, if left to dry, a giant puffball can contain seven trillion spores.

The giant puffball (C. gigantea), edible while young and white inside, is found in late summer on wet humus or soil.

Best of all, we stood in amazement at the crazy fecundity of fungi: a fruit body of the football-sized giant puffball can produce 6bn spores.

Do we really want to know that a single mushroom, three to four inches across, can produce 100 million spores in an hour — and that if all the 14 trillion spores of a basketball-size giant puffball bore fruit, the earth would be knocked out of its orbit?

Common names used to refer to the fungus include the sculptured puffball, sculptured giant puffball, and warted giant puffball.

Anne Yen, an illustrator and amateur mycologist, has spotted them at the base of trees on her walks in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, along with oysters and giant puffballs.

At the moment look out for giant puffballs, bristly ox-tongue and rocket, the latter often found in the cracks between walls and paths in cities.

The largest basidiocarps include giant puffballs (Calvatia gigantea), which can be 1.6 m (5.25 feet) long, 1.35 m broad, and 24 cm (9.5 inches) high, and those of bracket fungi (Polyporus squamosus)—2 m in diameter.

Now, in the drenched autumn of what is already the fourth wettest year ever recorded in New York City, the creamy-white giant puffballs have reached the size of human skulls.

While some edible mushrooms are so distinctive that even a novice can pick them without fear - giant puffballs, or chicken-of-the-woods, a yellow-orange explosion that appears on logs (and does, indeed, taste like chicken) - mycologists recommend that amateurs not eat questionable specimens without confirming their identity using a guidebook and spore prints.