Unlike most puffballs the western giant puffball reproduces in three stages asexually. Gleba is the spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi such as the puffball or stinkhorn. Wild chanterelle, pine, morel, lobster, puffball, and other mushrooms are commonly consumed. As the puffball matures, its insides become dark brown and powdery from mature spores. Lycoperdon is a genus of puffball mushrooms. The puffball fungus "Calvatia gigantea" has been calculated to produce about five trillion basidiospores. Not all true puffball mushrooms are without stalks. The western giant puffball is edible when completely white inside. Young specimens resemble a puffball when unopened. "Bovista", a genus of puffball, uses essentially the same dispersal strategy. Other sponges such as the orange puffball sponge (Tethya aurantium) can also produce glass biologically. The mini-crini silhouette influenced the work of other designers such as Christian Lacroix's "puffball" skirts. Some authors place the giant puffball and other members of genus "Calvatia" in order Agaricales. With the texture of tofu or marshmallows it is similar to the giant puffball. "Calbovista" is a common mountain puffball.