As puffballs mature, their outer layers flake to reveal yellow and green spores. So as to the other symbols—why a white-tailed deer for the state animal, when the Chicago Bears, not the Chicago ...

As it matures, its thin outer layer flakes away to reveal yellow to green-brown spores inside.” The giant puffball joins the Northern Red Cardinal as the state bird; the violet as the state ...

NORTHBROOK — Check a patch of Chicago green space, and you might be lucky enough to find a mushroom that looks like a soccer ball. The Calvatia Gigantea, or giant puffball mushroom, can be found all ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Nate Lyons with an immense puffball found while hunting mushrooms. Provided Share Chicago Public School teacher Megan Ali and her boyfriend Nate Lyons ...