[1] As with other Calvatia mushrooms, it is edible when young, and it is used in medicine.

[2] The fruiting body is 10 to 25 centimetres (3.9 to 9.8 in) high and 5 to 25 centimetres (2.0 to 9.8 in) wide, round on top with a wide stemlike sterile[clarification needed] base, often half the height of the fruiting body.

Spores are 4-6μm, round, minutely warted or spiny.

It is seen in pastures, open woods, etc., fairly common.

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