![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2375/jpeg/08t.jpg) Brain puffball mushroom (Calvatia craniiformis) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 5, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2375/jpeg/09t.jpg) Group of brain puffball mushroom (Calvatia craniiformis) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 5, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2385/jpeg/01t.jpg) Brain puffball mushrooms (Calvatia craniiformis) in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2385/jpeg/02t.jpg) Brain puffball mushrooms (Calvatia craniiformis) on a lawn in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/20t.jpg) Brain puffball mushroom (Calvatia craniiformis) in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, October 8, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2204/jpeg/01t.jpg) Brain puffball mushroom (Calvatia craniiformis) near Harvey Road. College Station, Texas, November 19, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2219/jpeg/09t.jpg) Brain puffball mushroom (Calvatia craniiformis) on Kiwanis Nature Trail. College Station, Texas, December 25, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1284/jpeg/06t.jpg) Puffball mushroom Calvatia near Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 2, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2379/jpeg/17t.jpg) Mature puffball mushrooms Calvatia craniiformis in Lake Bryan Park. Bryan, Texas, October 10, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2200/jpeg/12t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2189/jpeg/34t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) on a nature trail in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 22, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2774/jpeg/01t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 15, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2196/jpeg/19t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) on a trail in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 8, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2196/jpeg/24t.jpg) Dissected young orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 8, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2774/jpeg/13t.jpg) Wrinkled surface of orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 15, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2977/jpeg/13t.jpg) Yellow-staining puffball mushrooms Calvatia rubroflava (Calvatia rugosa) under oaks and Yaupon in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 8, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2196/jpeg/13t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Lemontree Park. College Station, Texas, November 8, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/07t.jpg) Old orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/08t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushroom (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in bushes in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2203/jpeg/15t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 18, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/06t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 6, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2896/jpeg/05t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Calvatia on a forest clearing in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 30, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/25t.jpg) Puffball mushroom (Calvatia) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, October 25, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1284/jpeg/02t.jpg) Small puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii (Vascellum curtisii) or pulcherrimum(?) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 2, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1284/jpeg/03t.jpg) Small puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii (Vascellum curtisii) or pulcherrimum(?) on sand of Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 2, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2195/jpeg/08t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Calvatia in Wolf Pen Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 5, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2735/jpeg/13t.jpg) Mature puffball mushrooms Calvatia fragilis(?) on a lawn in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, June 30, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/680/jpeg/05t.jpg) Puffball mushroom in dew in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 19, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2376/jpeg/20t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) on floodplain together with wild citrus fruits of Trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville. Texas, October 6, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/05t.jpg) Tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/15t.jpg) Mature tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/14t.jpg) Texture of tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/06t.jpg) Texture of tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/16t.jpg) Cracked surface of tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1294/jpeg/01t.jpg) Mature puffball mushroom (Calvatia) in Washington-on-the-Brazos State Historic Site. Washington, Texas, November 8, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2719/jpeg/23t.jpg) Yellow-staining puffball mushrooms Calvatia rubroflava (Calvatia rugosa) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, May 31, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2952/jpeg/18t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, June 3, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1282/jpeg/03t.jpg) Puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii (Vascellum curtisii) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2736/jpeg/08t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava, Calvatia rugosa) together with chanterelle on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, July 3, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1282/jpeg/02t.jpg) Mature puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii (Vascellum curtisii) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2952/jpeg/19t.jpg) Cross section of orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava) in Hensel Park. College Station, Texas, June 3, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2374/jpeg/18t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Lycoperdon marginatum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2385/jpeg/06t.jpg) Waxcap (Hygrocybe) and a puffball mushrooms in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 24, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2372/jpeg/15t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Lycoperdon umbrinum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 3, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3542/jpeg/10t.jpg) Close-up of a puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/13t.jpg) Yellow Amanita mushroom in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 7, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2710/jpeg/03t.jpg) Peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum)(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 22, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2750/jpeg/23t.jpg) Mushroom Agaricus diminutivus together with a puffball in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 8, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2019/2548/jpeg/25t.jpg) Dissected false puffball mushroom (Scleroderma) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 5, 2019
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2750/jpeg/24t.jpg) Underside of mushroom Agaricus diminutivus together with a puffball in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, August 8, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2240/jpeg/08t.jpg) Yellow brain fungus (Tremella mesenterica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 29, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3458/jpeg/16t.jpg) Basidia(?) of a puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2316/jpeg/13t.jpg) Puffball (Lycoperdon) mushroom on a recent forest cutting in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 16, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3527/jpeg/23t.jpg) Peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum) on Closed Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 6, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2305/jpeg/18t.jpg) Puffball mushroom Lycoperdon marginatum on a sandy path in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 11, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3458/jpeg/15t.jpg) Tissues of a puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii collected in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3458/jpeg/07t.jpg) Close-up of a young puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, January 10, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1297/jpeg/07t.jpg) Tuff puffball mushrooms (dirty tennis ball fungi, Scleroderma texense) on roadside in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 12, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2316/jpeg/11t.jpg) Mature puffball (Lycoperdon) mushroom on a recent forest cutting in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 16, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3527/jpeg/24t.jpg) Section of peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum) on Closed Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 6, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3614/jpeg/29t.jpg) Section of a mature rooting puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon radicatum) from Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 5, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2305/jpeg/15t.jpg) False puffball mushroom Scleroderma texense on a utility cutting in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 11, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2316/jpeg/12t.jpg) Dissected mature puffball (Lycoperdon) mushroom on a recent forest cutting in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 16, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2356/jpeg/18t.jpg) Large puffball mushroom Bovista plumbea (Calvatia bovista)(?) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest, near Huntsville. Texas, September 15, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2008/677/jpeg/18t.jpg) Tough puffball mushrooms with blackish interior (earthballs, Scleroderma texense) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 8, 2008
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2235/jpeg/18t.jpg) Puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii (Vascellum curtisii) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, March 12, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1284/jpeg/04t.jpg) Brilliant red shelves of Pycnoporus sanguineus mushroom emerging from dead limb of a downed oak on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 2, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2390/jpeg/06t.jpg) Immature pear-shaped stump puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon pyriforme, Apioperdon pyriforme) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 30, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1905/jpeg/08t.jpg) Old Pestle puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon excipuliforme, Calvatia excipuliformis, Handkea excipuliformis) near Lisiy Nos, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, September 12, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2016/1886/jpeg/12t.jpg) Pestle puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon excipuliforme, Calvatia excipuliformis, Handkea excipuliformis) near Lisiy Nos, west from Saint Petersburg, Russia, August 23, 2016
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2251/jpeg/01t.jpg) Small puffball mushroom Lycoperdon curtisii (Vascellum curtisii) on Post Oak Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 25, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1289/jpeg/22t.jpg) Mature puffball mushroom on Little Lake Creek Loop Trail in Sam Houston National Forest. Richards, Texas, October 19, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1284/jpeg/01t.jpg) Pleated inkcap mushroom (Parasola plicatilis, Coprinus plicatilis, Little Japanese Umbrella) near parking place in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 2, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1284/jpeg/05t.jpg) Pleated inkcap mushroom (Parasola plicatilis, Coprinus plicatilis, Little Japanese Umbrella) on Iron Bridge Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 2, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1316/jpeg/13t.jpg) Old mushroom caps mushroom with black mold near Raccoon Run Trail in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, December 19, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3542/jpeg/08t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2024/3542/jpeg/09t.jpg) Section of puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 19, 2024
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2200/jpeg/01t.jpg) Puffball mushroom Lycoperdon marginatum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2200/jpeg/03t.jpg) Cut puffball mushroom Lycoperdon marginatum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2781/jpeg/17t.jpg) Orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 19, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/21t.jpg) Frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 11, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/20t.jpg) Ragweed (Ambrosia artemisiifolia) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2305/jpeg/08t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Lycoperdon americanum in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, July 11, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2353/jpeg/23t.jpg) Mature puffball mushrooms Bovista(?) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 11, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2709/jpeg/11t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Arachnion album on a lawn in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 18, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2353/jpeg/26t.jpg) Puffball like mushrooms Arachnion album in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 11, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2018/2266/jpeg/15t.jpg) Spiny puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon americanum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 24, 2018
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2915/jpeg/12t.jpg) Peeling puffball mushroom (Lycoperdon marginatum) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, April 20, 2021
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2192/jpeg/30t.jpg) Tuff puffball mushroom (Scleroderma texense) in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 3, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2017/2200/jpeg/02t.jpg) Close up of puffball mushroom Lycoperdon marginatum in Bee Creek Park. College Station, Texas, November 16, 2017
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2781/jpeg/18t.jpg) Mature orange-staining puffball mushrooms (Calvatia rubroflava) on Caney Creek Trail (Little Lake Creek Loop Trail) in Sam Houston National Forest north from Montgomery. Texas, September 19, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1282/jpeg/01t.jpg) Amanita mushroom in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1282/jpeg/04t.jpg) Lepiota(?) mushroom in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, September 27, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1287/jpeg/22t.jpg) Flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 11, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2642/jpeg/24t.jpg) Common puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon perlatum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2642/jpeg/28t.jpg) Spiked puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon perlatum) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, February 5, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2020/2709/jpeg/12t.jpg) Puffball mushrooms Arachnion album behind Nature Center in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, May 18, 2020
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2013/1290/jpeg/19t.jpg) Bumblebee on flowers of frostweed (Verbesina virginica) in Lick Creek Park. College Station, Texas, October 23, 2013
![](../../pictures/archives/compress/2021/2930/jpeg/20t.jpg) Mature brain-like fruit bodies of conifer brain mushrooms (Tremella encephala) on a fallen spruce in Tarkhovka Park, west from Saint Petersburg. Russia, May 10, 2021
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