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According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, Calvatia gigantea typically grows up to 20–50 centimetres (8– 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide and high. [2] According to First Nature, it "can grow to 80 cm diameter and weigh several kilograms". [3] A specimen weighing over 23 kg (51 lb) was recorded in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. [4]
Seven U.S. states, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Illinois have officially declared a state mushroom.Minnesota was the first to declare a species; Morchella esculenta was chosen as its state mushroom in 1984, and codified into Statute in 2010. [1]
The giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea (earlier classified as Lycoperdon giganteum), reaches 1 foot (0.30 m) or more in diameter, and is difficult to mistake for any other fungus. It has been estimated that, when mature, a large specimen of this fungus will produce around 7 × 10 12 spores, which is more than any other known organism.
Cluster of fruit bodies found in New Zealand. The fruit bodies of Calvatia craniiformis grow to dimensions of 6–20 cm (2.4–7.9 in) tall by 8–20 cm (3.1–7.9 in) wide, and have a form ranging from pear-shaped, [12] to flattened-spherical, to obovate (roughly egg-shaped), to tunicate (like an inverted cone).
Hericium erinaceus, a tooth fungus; also called "lion's mane mushroom" Hydnum repandum, sweet tooth fungus, hedgehog mushroom or hedgehog fungus, urchin of the woods; Lactarius deliciosus, saffron milk cap, consumed around the world and prized in Russia; Morchella genus (morel family) morels belong to the ascomycete grouping of fungi. They are ...
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 booniana, commonly known as the western giant puffball, [1] is a puffball mushroom that can grow 10 to 70 centimetres (3.9 to 28 in) in diameter, as large as its close relative, the giant puffball of eastern North America and Europe. [2]
Handkea utriformis, synonymous with Lycoperdon utriforme, Lycoperdon caelatum or Calvatia utriformis, is a species of the puffball family Lycoperdaceae.A rather large mushroom, it may reach dimensions of up to 25 cm (10 in) broad by 20 cm (8 in) tall.