Information on this rock, and identity?
Typically we are not answering Rock Id questions, though this is a somewhat unique question because the rock is unique.  Your rock is likely a tufa (never heard it called tuffy).  It is a rock that is formed when water with high carbonate content is released to the surface.  Depending on the conditions at the surface the dissolved carbonate comes out of solution, this can be through cooling, depressurization and reduction of the partial pressure of CO2, or through biological precipitation by organisms such as blue-green algae.  There may also be other means that the deposition occurs but overall the water solution is initially oversaturated with the carbonate minerals.  These deposit out in the patterns shown on your sample.  If you were to perform an acid test your rock should show a strong reaction.  The area around the California Nevada boundary has a large number of locations with this type of deposit both active, Mono Lake, and inactive like the Trona Pinnacles.  Nevada itself has some of these deposits in the Black Rock Desert, Pyramid Lake and Fly Ranch areas.  Deposits are likely found world wide but these are the ones I am familiar with.  The pattern of deposition on your rock suggests to me an association with algae when it was deposited.  See the following sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tufa

https://www.blackrockdesert.org/wiki/index.php?title=Geology