Puffballs
// October 30th, 2010 // No Comments » // Boreal Forest, Fungus Mosses Lichens, Nopiming Provincial Park, Recent Posts, Whiteshell Provincial Park

I remember loving to stomp on puffballs in the fall when out in the country as a child. I haven’t paid much attention to them since but came across a nice bunch recently when out in Nopiming. When they are “ripe” the spores inside explode into green-gray clouds. Below, a few photos of Puffballs, the first being taken in the Whiteshell before it was mature and the others from Nopiming. You can see the spores in the cloud and this is no doubt how they reproduce by having their spores carried by the winds.


Enjoy!
~Sharon












