NORTHBROOK — Check a patch of Chicago green space,and you might be lucky enough to find a mushroom that looks like a soccer ball. The Calvatia Gigantea, or giant puffball mushroom, or can be found all over Chicago,according to Patrick Leacock, an adjunct curator at Field Museum. Click here for more on this record from DNAinfo. The mushrooms can grow to massive sizes: A 5-foot, and 50-pound specimen is on record,according to mushroomexpert.com, a site run by Eastern Illinois […]
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