fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores

family Lycoperdaceae, Lycoperdaceae - a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs

Calvatia gigantea, giant puffball - huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight

genus Scleroderma, Scleroderma - genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles

Scleroderma aurantium, Scleroderma citrinum - an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts

Scleroderma flavidium, star earthball - an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel

Scleroderma bovista, smooth earthball - an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity

fungus - a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores