Common puffballs? or strange alien probes..?

[Samon]

I need to double check as I'm paranoid lol.

So, are these common puffballs? Some were brown and too old so i left them behind but collected some of the nice white ones.

 

[Samon]

 

[Macaroon]

Look like wood puffballs to me, I collect and eat them every year. You're right to avoid those turning brown, they should all be white for consumption.

 

[Samon]

Yeah mine are fully white, got a little discoloured during the take home from the little bits all over them and the crud etc.

But these re deffinately edible and I won't die? not even die a little bit?..

 

[Wander]

Yup, stump puffballs.
Latin name Alienus Probus Anus.




Not really.
Well, yes they really are stump puffballs, but that's not really the latin name.
Eat them when they're white.

 

[mousey]

Latin name ....

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Is this why you avoid them when they are brown ?....

 

[Geoff Dann]

They are Pestle Puffballs.