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Puffball

Puffballs are a type of fungus featuring a ball-shaped fruiting body that, when mature, bursts on contact or impact, releasing a cloud of dust-like spores into the surrounding area. Puffballs belong to the division Basidiomycota and encompass several genera, including Calvatia, Calbovista and Lycoperdon. The puffballs were previously treated as a…

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Puffball

Nodes103
Edges102
Triples29
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.019417
Components1

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Puffball

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related to Traditional uses · 9
Puffball → Americas, Asia, Europe, Indigenous, Modern, North America, Puffballs, The, This
related to Edibility and identification · 8
Puffball → Amanita, Amanitas, Calvatia, Edible, It, The, While, Young
related to True · 6
Puffball → Bovista, Calvatia, Handkea, Lycoperdon, Scleroderma, True
related to Stalked · 4
Puffball → Battarrea, Pisolithus, Stalked, Stalked Puffball-in-Aspic
related to False · 2
Puffball → Endoptychum, False

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puffballs spores gleba true stalked false edible lycoperdon called also calvatia gasteromycetes similar mushrooms mature gasteroid scleroderma cap basidiocarp inedible

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationWhile0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationAmanitas0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationYoung0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationAmanita0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationEdible0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationThe0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationCalvatia0.60section
Puffballrelated to Edibility and identificationIt0.60section
Puffballrelated to FalseFalse0.60section
Puffballrelated to FalseEndoptychum0.60section
Puffballrelated to StalkedStalked0.60section
Puffballrelated to StalkedBattarrea0.60section

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