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During a walk in a forest area near the Red Oak natural center in North Aurora (USA), a man accidentally discovered a series of strange objects shaped like giant eggs lying on Garbage on the ground. At first, the man felt shivering from afar, these strange objects were very similar to ivory -white skulls.

However, when approaching, the man discovered these strange eggs was a mushroom called Puffball and happily collected them.

Puffball is a mushroom that is often round and sizes. The mushroom with a "terrible" size was discovered by the man as the king of puffball, also known as Giant Puffbal or Calvatia Gigantea. More interesting, Gigantea means giant, and Calvatia originated from two words in Latin, Calvus, means bald and Calvaria means a skull. True to what the man once imagined, the giant Puffball mushroom was also likened to a giant skull.

According to research by biologists, Puffball mushrooms appear all over the world, but most in North America, Europe and some areas of China. Unlike conventional mushrooms, Puffball mushrooms often grow in the form of solid mushrooms, no body, no hat and carrier.

Giant Puffball mushrooms may be from 10 to 70 cm in size. Meanwhile, according to the Guinness World Record, the largest Puffball tree ever found in Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, UK with sizes up to more than 160cm.

Typically, Puffball mushrooms are round and will change color from white to olive brown throughout the maturity process. Young Puffball mushrooms can be used to prepare food but people need to be careful when choosing them. Puffball mushrooms can be eaten evenly, without spots or yellow, brown or any other color.

Heidi Anderson, a natural house of Polk seed conservation agency in Granger (USA), said: “The key to identifying the giant Puffball mushroom is a smooth surface. When cut in half, the mushrooms must be white throughout the mushroom body. Once it is yellow in the middle, it should not be eaten. ”

According to those who have experienced "hunting" wild puffball mushrooms, this mushroom has the same texture as tofu, however, foam and juicy mushrooms will shrink when cooked. Puffball mushrooms are processed in many different ways and can be easily combined with a variety of ingredients. One of the popular ways to process Puffball mushrooms is to fry butter, stir -fried garlic or grilled.

Not only is a new ingredient for those who love to explore cuisine, Puffball mushrooms are also applied a lot in healing. Traditional Chinese medicine records the ability to regenerate muscles and bleeding, while an American Lakota tribe also uses dry spores from this giant mushroom to stop bleeding and support blood clots.

However, biological experts also recommend that people should be particularly careful because Puffball mushrooms are easily confused with some of the poisonous mushrooms with white round shapes, including Amanita, Scleroderma Citrinum and other. Other Screroderma mushrooms.