A massive mushroom
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- September
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A giant puffball. No, it’s not a super-sized dust bunny but rather a massive mushroom. Eight-year-old Aaron Maniccio spotted the mushroom, actually called a giant puffball, growing in downtown Yorktown, according to his dad. Anthony Maniccio, the dad, is holding the mushroom in the photo. From a distance, he said, it looked like a Styrofoam ball. The fungus, he said, is about as big as a bowling ball with pockmarks that resemble the moon’s surface. 
Giant puffballs can be as small as a softball and as large as a beach ball, according to various accounts. Here’s one that was found growing outside a bar in what sounds like Rhode Island.
Thanks to my colleague Brian Howard for tracking down the information about Yorktown’s giant mushroom.
(Photo by Joanne Cariello)
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Mike Risinit covers Patterson and Kent in Putnam County, as well as environmental topics touching on the Hudson River and the Great Swamp. Risinit has been a reporter at The Journal News since 1998.
