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Is this a plant? Or fungi? What is this called? Slightly soft, white, with roots, found on the mound next to the tree,

I can’t see your picture clearly, it should be the same as this picture.

This thing is: puffball, also called gray bag, gray horse bag, horse dung bag. It is a commonly used Chinese herbal medicine.

It has the following functions: clearing the lungs, soothing the throat, and detoxifying. Stop bleeding. It is effective in treating sore throat, sore throat, cough, aphonia, vomiting blood, epistaxis, and traumatic bleeding. It is customarily used as a hemostatic agent for trauma in rural areas, especially in mountainous areas.

Puffballs belong to the dried fruiting bodies of big puffballs, purple puffballs and peeling puffballs of the puffball family. Puffballs grow all over our country. After rain in summer and autumn, they mostly grow in wilderness grasslands and farmyards. It grows quickly and has a maximum diameter of about 30 centimeters.