PUFFBALL

or smokeball, fungus in which the aboveground portion is typically a stemless brownish sac with an opening at the top through which issues the dustlike mass of ripe spores. The common puffball is Lycoperdon gemmatum. The giant puffball (L. giganteum) may reach a diameter of 1 ft (30 cm) or more. No puffballs are poisonous, and most forms are edible when young. They are related to the mushroom and are similar in flavor. Puffballs are classified in the kingdom Fungi, phylum (division) Basidiomycota.

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Mr. Bloomfield's Orchard: The Mysterious World of Mushrooms, Molds, and Mycologists
Book by Nicholas P. Money; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: Fungi
...The name refers to Lycoperdon, the puffball genus. In 1994, a group of teenagers...following a party in which they had snorted puffball spores. They were probably hoping for...experience, and indeed, at least one puffball species does have psychoactive effects...
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Composition of Scientific Words: A Manual of Methods and a Lexicon of Materials for the Practice of Logotechnics
Book by Roland Wilbur Brown; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1956
Subjects: English Language--Foreign Elements--Greek, English Language--Foreign Elements--Latin, English Language--Word Formation--Glossaries, Vocabularies, Etc, Science--Terminology
...vaginata a mushroom . Gr. aschion, n. truffle, puffball: NL. aspergillus, a genus of fungi whose conidiophores resemble a brush; see bush G. bofist, puffball: Bovista nigrescens a puffball , Bovistella ohiensis a puffball . L. boletus...
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Nootka and Quileute Music
Book by Frances Densmore; Government Printing Office, 1939
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Music, Nootka Indians, Quileute Indians
Calvatia lilacina Berk Puffball . The powder inside this puffball was applied to heal sores on the leg. Tsuga heterophylla...the bruise. 8. HEMORRHAGES Calvatia lilacina Berk puffball . The inside portion was used to check a hemorrhage...
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The World of Plant Life
Book by Clarence J. Hylander; Macmillan, 1939
Subjects: Botany--United States
...the substratum. The Puffballs, or Pouch Fungi, are...white interior of the Puffball changes to a yellowish...The common little Puffball, often found in clusters...Calvatia , the Brain Puffball, which is common in...Geaster are related to the Puffballs. Here the spore sac...
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A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and Literature
Book by Marina Benjamin; Rutgers University Press, 1993
Subjects: Feminism, Gender Identity--Social Aspects, Human Reproductive Technology--Social Aspects, Sex Differences--Social Aspects, Women In Literature, Women In Science, Women--Identity
...1936 . 9 The Birth Machine London: Womens Press, 1983 ; Puffball London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980 . Subsequent references...Birth Machine copyright Elizabeth Baines 1983; quotations from Puffball , copyright Fay Weldon 1980, are reprinted with kind permission...
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journal articles on: Puffball  - 8 results

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The Original "free Trade": Exchange of Botanical Products and Associated Plant Knowledge in Northwestern North America
Journal article by Nancy J. Turner, Dawn C. Loewen; Anthropologica, Vol. 40, 1998
Subjects: Botany, British Columbia Canada, Culture, Ethnology, History, Native peoples
...berries are black and crows eat them, and various names for puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon, Calvatia and Bovista spp.) relate...Philadelphia. Burk, W.R., and T.K. Fitzgerald 1981 Puffball Usages Among North American Indians, McIlvainea, 5(1...
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Darwinism, Doxology, and Energy Physics: The New Sciences, the Poetry and the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Journal article by Marie Banfield; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 45, 2007
Subjects: English poets--Works, Evolution (Biology)--Influence, Evolution--Influence, Hopkins, Gerard Manley--Works, Laws of thermodynamics--Influence, Poetry--Authorship
...transmutations and the ceaseless energy of the natural world are recreated. Clouds are described in strongly physical terms: "puffball," "tufts," "pillows"; they draw their shape and texture from the wind as they are "torn" and "tossed" in the air...
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A Set of Kyogen Adaptations: Henry Livings's Pongo Plays
Journal article by Anthony Graham-White; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 24, 2007
Subjects: Adaptations, Dramatists--Works, Kyogen--Performances, Livings, Henry--Works, Playwrights--Works, Pongo Plays (Play)
...moving. Whenever the Musician sings the menacing-sounding Chanterelle and Honey Agaric Stinkhorn Smut and Bunt Oh Warty Puffball and Fly Agaric Bitter Boletus and up we shunt (Livings 1974: 49) <br/ audience members, as the mushrooms and toadstools...
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The Question of Age in the Construction of Hellenistic Masculinities in Menander
Journal article by Henrik Berg; Thymos, Vol. 2, 2008
Subjects: Behavior, Construction, Ethnicity, Gender, Human relations, Masculinity, Scholars, Society
...lightweight material that might not serve as a sound empirical source for the period. Recently, they were still called "puffball plays" by Green (1995). From the 1960s onwards, the status of Menanders work was re-evaluated, however, but it is...
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Herbal Landscape: The Perception of Landscape as a Source of Medicinal Plants
Journal article by Renata Soukand, Raivo Kalle; Trames, Vol. 14, 2010
Subjects: Ethnobotany--Analysis, Herbal medicine--Social aspects, Medicine, Botanic--Social aspects, Medicine, Herbal--Social aspects
...paiseleht from paisu- expand and leht leaf, i.e. a leaf that expands rapidly (in spring). A mushroom (1), the common puffball Lycoperdon perlatum, often recognized and appreciated as a delicious food early in its vegetation period, was seen within...
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magazine articles on: Puffball  - 37 results

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Jekyll-hyde Mushrooms
Magazine article by George Barron; Natural History, March 1992
Subjects: Fungi
...are the fruit bodies of fungi. Prod a puffball with a stick and a brown cloud of tiny...spores an hour for days on end. A giant puffball contains about a trillion spores! Where...forest, including the shaggy mane, small puffball, orange Mycena, turkey tail bracket...
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Northern Exposure
Magazine article by Michael Open; Film Ireland, July 2006
...photography on Nic Roegs much-awaited Puffball (from a novel by Fay Weldon), and...Neil Jordans Breakfast on Pluto and now Puffball and Closing the Ring have all used the...initiatives carried out by NIFTC. But Puffball and Closing the Ring started in close...
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Production News
Magazine article; Film Ireland, November 2005
...Michele Forbes (Omagh) and Owen Roe (Breakfaston Pluto). Puffball Grand Pictures is co-producing the new feature by British...Walkabout, Don tLook Now). The euro4 million feature film Puffball is expected to go into pre-production at the end of November...
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Features
Magazine article; Film Ireland, July 2005
...Classic Media. Odyssey Entertainment will handle worldwide sales. Puffball English director Nicolas Roeg (Dont Look Now) will be filming his new feature in Ireland. Puffball is an adaptation by Dan Weldon of the book by Fay Weldon. Shooting...
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Production News
Magazine article; Film Ireland, March 2006
...2008. This film is written and directed by Barry ODonoghue. Puffball Following The secret Life of Words and Wilderness, it seems...who has been inactive for some time, and who is set to make Puffball using rural locations in the North. The film, based on a...
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Just Razzle Dazzle 'Em! Where It Is Needed. Puffball
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 26, 2009
...Razzle Dazzle Em! Where It Is Needed. Puffball. DECIDING what to wear during the Christmas...dresses add a flourish where it is needed. Puffball skirts, a la Cheryl Cole, show off...Pictures: Matalan Flirty party dresses with puffball skirts and a metallic sheen set the trend...
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Say Farewell to the Puce Puffball of Yesteryear
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), September 21, 2010
Say Farewell to the Puce Puffball of Yesteryear. WEVE all seen our fair share of hideous bridesmaid dresses over the years. And, with unflattering cuts, puffball sleeves and oversized bows traditionally de rigeur for the brides...
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The Joy of Ceps; A Puffball Mushroom Emitting Spores
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), November 11, 2007
The Joy of Ceps; A Puffball Mushroom Emitting Spores. Byline: TOM PARKER BOWLES November is the fag-end of the wild mushroom season, the last hurrahbefore...
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Era We Go Again; THE 80s Have Been Dubbed the Era That Style forgot.From Mohicans to Wedges, Shoulder Pads to Puffballs the Decade Was Certainly Eclectic in Terms of Fashion and Flair. and It Seems Elements from the 80s Are Refusing to die.The High Street Is Awash with 80s-Inspired Gear and If Recent Reports Are to Be Believed the Must-Have Hairstyle of the 80s - the Perm - Is Staging a Comeback too.Feature Writer KAREN HAMBRIDGE Reports
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), March 31, 2008
Era We Go Again; THE 80s Have Been Dubbed the Era That Style forgot.From Mohicans to Wedges, Shoulder Pads to Puffballs the Decade Was Certainly Eclectic in Terms of Fashion and Flair. and It Seems Elements from the 80s Are Refusing to die...
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Julius Seizes an Emperor among Puffballs
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 28, 1996
...Seizes an Emperor among Puffballs. AT 5ft 7in round the waist, this giant puffball is hardly the kind of...on mushrooms but the puffball would be too big for...with a dozen smaller puffballs in a field on an organic...the largest recorded puffball mushroom was found in...
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encyclopedia articles on: Puffball  - 3 results

 
 
1.
Puffball
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PUFFBALL or smokeball, fungus in which...mass of ripe spores. The common puffball is Lycoperdon gemmatum. The giant puffball ( L. giganteum ) may reach a...of 1 ft (30 cm) or more. No puffballs are poisonous, and most forms...
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Mushroom
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...contain some protein and minerals, they are largely composed of water and hence are of limited nutritive value. The truffle , puffball , and other edible fungi are sometimes also called mushrooms. In all cases the term mushroom is properly restricted to the...
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Smokeball
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SMOKEBALL see puffball . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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