puffballs

They are called puffballs because as they age, the mushroom grows from pure white interior flesh (most species are edible and bland to delicious at this state) to yellowish (not good eating at that point) to masses of puffy spores that can be '' poofed '' out the top of the mushroom in a puff of dark, dry spores (don't try to eat these at this point).

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The objects come in a variety of colors — red, white or brown — densities that range from puffballs to basalt-hard, shapes that range from round to lumpy, and follow a multiplicity of trajectories.

Dwarf planets Pluto, Eris battle for a spot in a vast universe 2011

Good luck but I don't trust myself to harvest any mushrooms other than Giant puffballs you can't mistake these for anything else.

It's getting to be that time of year, I love to hunt for mushrooms. It's like the rite of spring for me. 2009

It was a dome of poofy poodle fur framed with two mesh puffballs in sparkly green and pink.

Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway timprov 2009

Up here we have Pink Bottoms, Morels, puffballs, and ones we call stumpys (cuz they grow on stumps).

It's getting to be that time of year, I love to hunt for mushrooms. It's like the rite of spring for me. 2009

Tight clusters of spiny puffballs and sulphur tufts, troops of fairy inkcaps and the yellow caps of brittlegill toadstools flanked the footpath.

Country diary: Allen Banks, Northumberland Phil Gates 2010

Here in Southern Pennsylvania, I eat four wild mushrooms and I know them very well: I hunt for morels in the spring, puffballs in late summer, chanterelles in late, late summer, and my favorite, hen of the woods Grifola frondosa, also known to many people as maitake, which is Japanese for "dancing mushroom," in the fall.

Maria Rodale: Gathering Mushrooms in the Wild: Eating in the Wind Maria Rodale 2011

Up here we have Pink Bottoms, Morels, puffballs, and ones we call stumpys (cuz they grow on stumps).

It's getting to be that time of year, I love to hunt for mushrooms. It's like the rite of spring for me. 2009

But Tink still has the little puffballs on her shoes.

Would you do me a favor, please? « Dating Jesus 2009

Good luck but I don't trust myself to harvest any mushrooms other than Giant puffballs you can't mistake these for anything else.

It's getting to be that time of year, I love to hunt for mushrooms. It's like the rite of spring for me. 2009