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Calvatia gigantea, commonly known in English as the giant puffball, is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests in late summer and autumn. It is found in temperate areas throughout the world.
Calvatia is a genus of puffball mushrooms that includes the giant puffball C. gigantea.It was formerly classified within the now-obsolete order Lycoperdales, which, following a restructuring of fungal taxonomy brought about by molecular phylogeny, has been split; the puffballs, Calvatia spp. are now placed in the family Lycoperdaceae of the order Agaricales.
Calvatia gigantea; O. Calvatia oblongispora; P. ... Calvatia sporocristata This page was last edited on 19 March 2024, at 04:25 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
This puffball has been variously placed in the genera Bovista, Handkea, Calvatia, and Utraria.In 1989, German mycologist Hanns Kreisel described the genus Handkea to include species of Calvatia that had distinct microscopic features: Handkea species had a unique type of capillitium (coarse thick-walled hyphae in the gleba), with curvy slits instead of the usual pores. [1]
Calvatia sculpta, commonly known as the sculpted puffball, the sculptured puffball, the pyramid puffball, or Sierran puffball, is a species of puffball fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Attaining dimensions of up to 8 to 15 cm (3 to 6 in) tall by 8 to 10 cm (3 to 4 in) wide, the pear- or egg-shaped puffball is readily recognizable because of ...
The genus name Calbovista combines the parts cal, referring to the genus's puffball ally Calvatia, and bovista, alluding to the genus's similarity to Bovista and Bovistella. The specific epithet subsculpta refers to its resemblance to Calvatia sculpta, a species with which it had been frequently confused. [2]
This type of cactus is relatively fast-growing and keeps its cute rounded shape. They can grow up to five feet tall outdoors, though they make a fun windowsill plant indoors. Give it full sun, and ...
Calvatia craniiformis is edible when the gleba is firm and white, unlike the pictured specimen. Calvatia craniiformis is an edible species. [18] Young puffballs with a firm, white gleba have a mild odor and pleasant taste. [12] Early 20th-century mycologist Charles McIlvaine noted over a century ago that "the slightest change to yellow makes it ...