Pretty sure it is the fruiting body of a grass slime mold
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They do, but not in the same sense of "mushrooms." You should totally google it. Some of them are WILD. One of them is iridescent!
I think this bad boy was REALLY ripe and nearly ready to blow. I probably should have let it. Maybe I would still be finding puffballs!
Thankfully some smaller and not-so-ripe puffballs came up too! I managed to snaffle one. I haven't seen any for several years now, though. It's devastating.
Monster puffball I stumbled across several years ago
Not everything is good as leftovers! And I was trained as a child to not waste food, so it's a real struggle. Do I binge eat the whole thing or give a big middle finger to the starving children in Africa?