Giant Puffball?
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xylaria
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you don't need help with ID it is a giant puff ball 
Nice sliced and dipped in egg and fried with bacon, Spit out any bits that taste slighty bitter.
Nice sliced and dipped in egg and fried with bacon, Spit out any bits that taste slighty bitter.
Excuse my ignorance, is that a type of mushroom?Thanks i'm happy i spotted it as i have never seen one before. to be honest at first i thought it was a piece of expanding foam from a distance.
Good camera phone btw
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Thanks i'm happy i spotted it as i have never seen one before. to be honest at first i thought it was a piece of expanding foam from a distance.
Easy mistake that. I have mistook a lump of no-big-gaps for puffball from a distance, and the odd bin bag.
Are you going to eat it?
Yes it is fungus it is big it is round and it grows on the ground
Excuse my ignorance, is that a type of mushroom?
Good camera phone btw
Until today I had never seen one of these before, It is a type of mushroom and quite tasty from what i hear. Think i will go back tommorow and get me a slice.
Easy mistake that. I have mistook a lump of no-big-gaps for puffball from a distance, and the odd bin bag.
Are you going to eat it?
Yes it is fungus it is big it is round and it grows on the ground
Yeh i think i will go tommorow and try it.
All the GPBs I've eaten have been like solid white footballs,no holes.
I'm not sure that one will be fit to eat.
Or do they come in varieties with holes?
I'm not sure that one will be fit to eat.
Or do they come in varieties with holes?
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
All the GPBs I've eaten have been like solid white footballs,no holes.
I'm not sure that one will be fit to eat.
Or do they come in varieties with holes?
It is just where slugs have been at it, there is often woodlice etc living in it too. But there is normal enough of a fungus to share with the local wildlife.
Spit out any bits that taste slighty bitterIt is not harmful but can make some people slight queasy if they eat it a bit expired.
Think you'll find it will be brown and powdery inside. Autumn is the time of year when they are fit for eating.
Kick it round a bit to spread the spores and then come back in 6 months!
j
Kick it round a bit to spread the spores and then come back in 6 months!
j
It looked very mushroomy inside, confused now dont know what to do now eat it or beat it?
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Giant puffball is a seasonal temperamental fungus. It can appear at time between june and september. Letting this one run to spore wont make more fungi in september. I will look up the vector of spore germination for this fungi, but air dispersal of spores is not normally the most efficient vector of reproduction especially in such large fungi.
The fungus in the picture has not gone to spore and appears perfectly edible. It has just been nibbled at bit. A slice off the top normally doesn't have any wildlife in it.
The fungus in the picture has not gone to spore and appears perfectly edible. It has just been nibbled at bit. A slice off the top normally doesn't have any wildlife in it.
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I'm seeing more and more Fungi when out and about. Never yet managed to find a GPB in good condition though
Enjoy!
:yikes: Three letter acronyms, Next it would be 'I was out with my WAG and tripped on a BWB so I ID'ed It and it was a GPB so I tried to slice it with my SAK I couldn't so I put in the back of the APC' My feeble little brain cant cope.
As for puffballs I have got away with just eating the white bits and been fine but that doesn't mean some else would be doing the same. My kids ate some as well, but they know what what taste to spit out cos I have shown them.
It looked very mushroomy inside, confused now dont know what to do now eat it or beat it?
Giant puffballs tend to look like mushroom flesh before they develop further and spore. I have only eaten them before they have spored when the flesh is all white inside. I've sliced them up with a bread knife and gently fried them with onions and chilli's as the flesh is pretty tasteless on it's own. Personally I'd only eat them if there is nothing else on the go as they are not that great to eat.
