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#FungiFriday🍄: Puffballs are round and fleshy mushroom that erupt from the forest floor and on rotting wood, ranging in size from your fingernail to as large as a football (⚽️English and American🏈 football!). Most puffballs lack the stalk, umbrella cap, and frilly gills characteristics typically associated with woodland mushrooms. They may be foun singly or, most often, in groups. On maturity the mushroom begins to dry, develop a spore reserve inside, and an opening in the upper surface. Distu