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Giant puffball

Hiidmuna

Lasiosphaera gigantea, Langermannia gigantea

 

That one mushroom may be bigger than another is natural. But it rarely happens that a mushroom grows as big as in these photos. This giant was brought to the mushroom exhibition in Valga – girth 135 centimetres and weight four and a half kilos. If a big pike is sometimes called a wedding pike, then this giant puffball might be a wedding ball. Or wedding egg – Estonian “hiidmuna” means giant egg.

 

Giant puffball