It’s a giant puffball mushroom!
The “beach ball-sized” mushroom was found by a visitor in Jester Park, Iowa.
The mushroom was measured at 45 cm across and 25 cm deep. The average size of puffball mushrooms typically range between 20cm to 30cm across.
Puffball mushrooms are round in appearance and are typically white to olive brown colored. As puffballs age, though, their centers turn yellowish-brown, eventually drying and producing spores.
And not just a few spores: A single giant puffball can have up to as many as 7 trillion spores.
But still, why the “puffball” name?
Its because when you squeeze them, all the spores will kind of explode from the puffball itself.
You can eat puffball mushrooms. Puffballs can be sauteed, broiled, or breaded and fried.
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Let me tell you a bad joke “honey please move I don’t have mushroom”
Yum! I love mushrooms,and I would like to have some!
i really don’t like mushrooms but i think that it is really cool, i would like to see that mushroom in person because it looks like a giant squishy:)
its big
really big
That’s crazy huge
Wow that’s huge.
is it normal
I thought it was a egg
its sooooooooooo big
Wow
wow that is one big mushroom
it is great
I thought that it was a Marshmallow (._.)
i wounder how would it taste. i love to eat mushroom its yummy!