Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Summer puffball being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Lycoperdon lividum
- Lycoperdon dermoxanthum
- Lycoperdon subumbrinum
- Bovista plumbea
- Arachnion album
- Lycoperdon molle
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Agaricales
- Family
- Lycoperdaceae
- Genus
- Globaria
- Species
- Globaria aestivalis
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