Picture No 12487691 Date Description Giant puffball, common puffball and pestle puffball Details Giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea (Lycoperdon giganteum), common puffball, Lycoperdon gemmatum, and pestle puffball, Handkea excipuliformis (Lycoperdon saccatum). Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by William Hamilton Gibson from his book Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms, Harper, New York, 1895. Source Florilegius Collection Credit Line ©Florilegius/Mary Evans