Calvatia gigantea (Batsch:Pers.) Lloyd
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common name(s) : Giant Puffball
New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Agaricaceae
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Gasteromycetideae/Lycoperdales/Lycoperdaceae
synonyms: Langermannia gigantea, Lycoperdon giganteum, Lycoperdon maximum, Bovista gigantea, Lasiospharea gigantea
(unconfirmed synonyms: Calvatia maxima)
edibility : edible
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The fruiting body is irregularly or regularly spherical, smooth, matt, white to brownish.
The fertile surface is internal: the spores are released as dust when mature.
It grows on the ground, in meadows, pastures.
The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: |
width of fruiting body approximately 36 cm (between 7 and 80 cm) |
| total height approximately 44 cm (between 7 and 80 cm) |
Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet
Calvatia gigantea is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking
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| | Above : distribution map of Calvatia gigantea in the forest of Rambouillet |
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page updated on 14/01/18