George McCarthy / Mosaic puffball fungus {Calvatia utriformis} in grassland, UK

Nigel Bean / Puffball fungus {Calvatia excipuliformis} UK

George McCarthy / Mosaic puffball fungus {Calvatia utriformis} Kent, UK

George McCarthy / Mosaic puffball {Calvatia utriformis} UK

Steve Gettle / Skull-shaped Puffball (Calvatia craniiformis) with falling acorns. Sequence 1 of 3

Jean E. Roche / Giant puffball (Langermannia gigantea) in high altitude wildflower meadow. Provence-Alpes-Cotes-d'Azur, France. July.

Nick Upton / Pestle puffball mushroom (Handkea excipuliformis) group growing on woodland edge grassland, New Forest, Hampshire, UK, October.

Nick Upton / Mosaic puffball mushroom (Calvatia utriformis) growing on permanent pasture grassland, Dorset, UK, September.

Linda Pitkin / Mosaic puffball (Lycoperdon utriforme), South West London, England, August.

Linda Pitkin / Giant puffball (Langermannia gigantea), Lullingstone Castle, Dartford, Kent, England, September.