Identify this and win a $20 Amazon gift card

I went hiking in the Kettle Moraine State Forest on Sunday with my friend, Christine Buffaloe, who’s visiting from San Diego, and my sharp eye noticed this white thing that was almost obscured. 

Can you guess what it is?

The first person to guess correctly in the Comments below wins a $20 Amazon gift card. 

 

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  • Lara Fabans

    Hi,
    it looks like a mushroom. Very cool by the way.

  • Roger Nielsen

    Looks to me to be a puffball mushroom ( Calvatia or Calbovista or Lycoperdon, I can’t tell which). Beautiful!

    • Joan Stewart

      Roger, you’re the winner! Congratulations. Buy something fun on amazon.

  • Dick Hakes

    Some unusual breed of mushroom!

  • Stephanie

    mushroom?

  • Katherine

    It looks like a wild mushroom and it is a fungi– called a puffball. The Tibetans used some puffballs for making ink.

  • Sheryl Buckner

    It looks like some sort of mushroom, but I bet looks can be deceiving.

  • Lynda Lippin

    It’s a giant puffball mushroom! Awesome.

  • Bonnie

    A mushroom???

  • Margaret Reece

    It looks like the puff ball mushrooms that turn up occasionally in my yard. My neighbor insists that they are great to eat when fried in a little butter. I have not had the courage to eat one myself.

  • Dorothy Erlanger

    Giant mushroom?

  • Karen McLain

    A mushroom, or someone dropped their marshmallow.

  • Elizabeth

    A puffball mushroom 🙂