A large, white, typically very spherical fungus which can grow up to the size of a football!
Not threatened
Please do not pick the fruiting bodies. These need to be allowed to produce and release their spores for reproduction.
Tony Leech
If the fungus is large, white and more or less spherical it is almost certainly a giant puffball. Although much larger specimens have been recorded, most are about the size of a football. The inside is initially white but darkens to become a mass of spores which are liberated when the skin splits.
Widespread but not that common in Norfolk. Can occur in groups in fields but more often seen in verges and hedgerows, often where the soil nutrient level has been raised.
Autumn
An old country name for the giant puffball is bulfe. Pieces of the dried spongy spore-mass were kept to staunch bleeding in injured farm animals – and, no doubt, humans.
Fungus.org.uk