Putting soccer balls to shame
Our mild summer and plenty of leaf litter produced this giant puffball mushroom near the tree line in our backyard. It’s estimated an average sized one of these produces 7 trillion (that’s 12 zeros) spores at maturity. Now that’s a lot of spores!
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Wow is that big ! I saw one at Hodag Park when I was walking Ruby. From a distance I thought it was a hat, it was that big !!
September 13, 2014 at 12:02 am
We’ve had them in our yard on occasion, but not quite that size! M
September 13, 2014 at 4:25 pm
Wow that’s a big one !
September 14, 2014 at 2:07 pm