How to identify it?
Fruiting Body
Fruiting body medium sized to large; irregularly globe-shaped.
Flesh
Flesh soft, white, becoming greenish brown. Odour and taste not distinctive.
Habit & Habitat
The species is saprobic; it grows singly or in troops and rings in rich grassland and scrub, sometimes in gardens. Spore print olive-brown.
Photo By Brain Johnson
Scientific Classification
Phylum
Club fungi Class
Mushroom-forming fungi Order
Gilled fungi Family
Agaricaceae Genus
Calvatia Species
Giant puffball