Sunday, 14 April 2019

Why does the Puffball explode?


The giant Puffball is a big round mushroom. Its skin is paper-thin, swollen from the inside and explodes when a drop of water touches it, leaving a cloud of spores.
Most mushrooms produce a fruit, which is the part we see, the rest of the mushroom is underground or in wood. Some are edible, but others are poisonous.

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