Puff balls. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Puff ball. Photo: Gaye Drady, NSW

Maturing puff ball. Photo: Gaye Drady, NSW

Puff ball releasing its spores. Photo: Gaye Drady, NSW

Common Name

Puffball Cap, Purple-spored Puffball

Family

Lycoperdaceae

Notes

Puff ball to 15cm diameter. Family formerly Agaricaceae

Description in Australian Fungi - A Blog:  http://australianfungi.blogspot.com.au/2007/05/13-calvatia-cyathiformis.html

Technical description and drawings of hyphae and spores in Grgurinovic, C. A. (1997), Larger Fungi of South Australia pages 669-670