Tuesday, 17 February 2015

The Giant Puffball: Nature's Orbicular Idiosyncrasy

image credit: bathyporeia

There are worse things you can find in the woods. As summer turns to fall, woodland and meadows the world over play host to one of nature's more orbicular idiosyncrasies.

It is large, round, white and has a distinctly extra-terrestrial appearance. Yet the giant puffball is very much of this world, albeit one of its stranger fungal denizens.

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